Ah, that's another reason to make sure you all handle your hungers first.

[ Even before the ceremony had started, those with a maker gossiped about how the 'beginning' was supposed to go. So while there was no experience with the way things worked in this society, she was already applying the logic she had already learned about a body's balance. ]

Are the ones that are planning or expected to be makers made sure to have something before the ceremony? Doesn't doing something like that leave a drain on the body? It'd be better to make sure there's a surplus that's brought back to even instead of causing a deficit.

[ Eden, you're literally mentally jumping ahead further than where your courses are meant to start. Stop that. ]