Balzac and the Little Chinese Seamstress (paragraph 7)

When Luo and the narrator are crossing the ravine it is ironic how Luo who is afraid of heights can cross the ravine and the narrator who usually never has any problem freezes in the middle of the ravine and must go back to the beginning. After Luo has continued on his way to see the little seamstress, the narrator mentions that he is suddenly apprehensive about how Luo's journey with Balzac and the Little seamstress would end. Maybe he is picking up on something that has changed between him and Luo, perhaps this is some sort of foreshadow for the future. Also I think that the nightmare that the narrator has further supports the idea that something bad is going to happen to Luo and the seamstress. I am not sure what the signifigance, if any, of the raven is. Perhaps it symbolizes bad luck or an omen of some sort. I thought for sure that the narrator was going to be taken to the authorities by the headman. If it wasn't for Luo's courage, the narrator would have likely gone to some sort of prison. When Luo is drilling the headman's tooth, I was not expecting the narrator to take on such an evil and vengeful attitude towards the headman. It was as though all of the hate and anger inside of him finally broke out and he became something other than his usual self because he wanted to cause the headman pain as revenge for all of the pain he had felt.