"Yes, you understand," says the guide. "Your suffering helped you see the truth, that there is only one way to end all suffering. What we ask of you is to take conviction from that truth as you join the fight beside us."

They clearly have heard and seen what they wanted to see and hear with Garrus. Their expectations from this ritual are both that their conscripts can survive hardship and that their suffering makes them further believe in the cause.

Sister Ellora gestures for Widowmaker to lay down next.