Rahel met his gaze and nodded. The intention hadn't been for it to be beautiful, but proper, and his presence had kept it from being as it should - but then she wasn't a proper Sikh anymore and the rites should have been performed by a purer follower.
She loosened the scarf from her hair and sighed. "The rest will have to be done by someone qualified in DC. I stopped carrying a Kerpan a long time ago, let alone everything else."