Without much but her thoughts in the empty room she was placed in, Meesei found Harriet sitting against a wall with one knee raised supporting one of her arms. She only shifted her bowed head slightly to look at Meesei when she entered.

"Got nothin' better to do," Harriet mumbled sourly as she slid upright and stretched one arm. She cleared her throat before walking to the exit.

It took a little while for representatives from the various packs to come up to the scholar's loft. Carana had to be found as she was still amongst the crowd after the announcement, but she had no objections to helping perform the test again, especially now that its full significance was apparent. All up there were about seven extra people in the loft witnessing as Sabine and Carana went about setting up the human heart in the flask again. One of which was one of Harriet's alphas. Sabine made sure to add lycan blood promptly this time.

Once the delicate procedure was done and the poison was added, there was an awkward silence where the witnesses sat on chairs found around the place. There were a few questions about the mechanics of the test that were steeped with alchemical jargon, but Carana was able to answer most. Sabine had her attention locked on the flask, nervous about making a mistake in front of everyone, so she only answered questions with scant words.

Roughly two thirds of an hour of waiting was interrupted by some isolated shouting coming from the halls below. About a minute later, Fendros came leaping up the steps to the scholar's loft with a dark expression as he caught his breath. "Meesei, Caleb has shown himself. You will need to come down, I think." Fendros' face told of a more severe situation than just his words implied.