With class responsibilities divvied up, you have just enough time before the semester starts to make progress on one of your many tasks.
You dive into your research, hoping you can make solid progress before the start of school. You spend more time than is healthy in the lab, Gabriel at your side, Summers watching on.
Now that you and Gabriel have looked for elements of pattern energy that might indicate that a pattern was going feral, you're ready to see if you can reliably induce ferality in patterns.
It's tough going, partly because what makes patterns go feral isn't well-documented, partly because making patterns go feral means you have a bunch of feral patterns to deal with. One takes a chunk out of your palm, but luckily your blood splatters on it and changes its pattern, quieting it. It's not a good solution, both because not all patterns respond to practitioners' blood and also most practitioners like to keep their blood on the inside, but at least it keeps you and Gabriel safe.
In the end, you've got an almost-reliable way of inducing ferality in a subclass of force patterns. Sure, it takes long days and longer nights, but your efforts have paid off. You were already ahead of where you wanted to be with your research, but now you're even further ahead.
Aw Yeah