The image remains refracted until the female is disrobed, so an elaborate ritual has been established culminating in the removal of the eldest female’s clothes and the final focusing of the image. Children in the darker tunnels wait for news to arrive by messenger, and on the day that the disrobing ritual begins they leave their burrows for the family hearth, as set forth in the Book of Smells. Children older than 13 will not return to the burrows at the culmination… Read more »