Decades later, graduate student and adjunct professor Jeremy Freirs decides to rent a renovated chicken coop located in the New Jersey countryside.

While they believe their meetings to be random coincidence, in truth they were orchestrated by the elderly Mr. Rosebottom, the human boy from so long ago.

Rosebottom's goal is to guide Carol through a series of rituals preparing her for a final one to be held on Lammas, using her naiveté to ensure that she is unaware of her participation.

While Rosebottom is busy in the city with Carol, a remnant of the entity manages to possess one of the Poroth's cats and eventually Deborah herself, in the process killing its hosts.

The entity instead possesses Sarr, discarding Deborah's body in a wasp-filled shed, unintentionally trapping the insects.

As the community arrives to force Jeremy to leave, Rosebottom hides in the shed, unaware that it is full of angry wasps, and is stung to death.

[7] Dave Langford reviewed The Ceremonies for White Dwarf #77, and stated that "Besides the thought that this is overdoing it a bit, one wonders where 'beyond the farthest depths of space' may be, and whether a sunless cavern there is necessarily darker than one near Milton Keynes.