"So… what did you want to tell us exactly, Professor?"
Taking a few bites of the chiffon cake the others had ordered for her 20 year anniversary, Veradine raised her head in response to one of the Scholars asking her a question.
"Is it your idea for the next article?" the Scholar asked, only for her expression to turn into that of expectation and excitement. "Or perhaps… you've made another breakthrough in optimizing the Basic Ether Gathering Technique?"
At those words, everyone began to look at each other, thinking that the announcement Veradine planned on telling them might just be related to it.
After all, over a few years ago, she had announced that she had pushed the Basic Ether Gathering Technique only after disappearing from the lab for a couple of weeks.
