Good thing to know about preemptive soaks. I have spent much time researching ball pythons and their care. It seems that you look at 4 sources and get 7 answers to do one thing with bps. I am always with my snake while feeding for safety reasons, so no worries there.
I ask about feeding in the cage because Nagini enjoys the humid hide, only coming out once in a while at night (2 am ish). I do not want to drop a mouse in the cage because it starts thinking it is its own home (since I tried this feeding technique). I can try a 2am feed, but when I tried a 12 am she wanted to explore her cage more.
Clearly she is not unhealthy by sight, so my worries come in more at the point of this is a roughly 2 year old snake that needs to eat so it can grow.= Lots of GRAMS