Layria, Chelly, and the other students stood outside of the small laboratory and watched the portal as well as the magic patterns that had dimmed. They were too reluctant to leave. They felt that a cat was scratching their hearts with its paw, and they could barely contain their curiosity.
After a long time, Alfalia finally said, "There's nothing we can do by standing here, and there's no telling when they will be back. Let's focus on our own business for now. After all, they will certainly tell us what they have experienced after they are back."
Heidi had always been willing to share as long as it was not anything confidential.
"Yes. There are a lot of scheduled experiments that we need to work on, a lot of data to be analyzed, new experiments to be designed, and new spells to be analyzed…" Layria only meant to agree with Alfalia at the beginning, but the more she talked, the more "hopeless" she felt her life was.
