It's a great preview, and you've got me interested in what the story actually develops into. The one thing that was a little off was this sentence.

As soon as the celebrations were over, he’d crashed on his mat and slept dreamlessly through the night.

I'd have changed the word "crashed." It seems too modern, too slang. I know I'm nitpicking one word out of the whole chapter but it was really the only thing I could find wrong.