"True," Mirage allowed grudgingly, trying and failing to remember his own first rite and how he might have felt.

He really only remembers awe and the overwhelming peace, but then again, he had been far more willing than the minibot.

"Well, there are some that can be unpleasant, in a sense-" his own marking ritual, for one- "But most are far too involved with more positive wavelengths to be painful."

And even then, the unpleasant ones were done with a sense of duty.