Attempting to cover up her own excitement she focuses on Thom's, "calm yourself, Thomas. It was not the Grandfather Oak, it was my own magic that sent me into twilight."
"Hold up, what dd the King of the Foam have to say to you? You've been trying to meet him for weeks now."
"Forget about the King of the Foam! You went into Twilight!! That's amazing! And you're back already? How long were you there? I don't know that I've ever met a mage who came back? I've only heard of mages going into Twilight. Mildred said it would eventually happen to us all, but ... What with the wars and all. I'm so curious about it!" says Thom with a smile.
After the excitement with Betula’s return exhausts itself, Thom tells the others of his meeting with the King of the Foam and his hope to establish a kind of alliance or at least diplomatic peace with the Foam Kingdom.
“At the very least, we’ll need to respect the King’s River Rights and not fish or disturb the stretch of river around the Falls. I’ll know more three nights hence when I return to meet with him.”
Sionag passed days and days alone to work about their future place. Far who she is really, she avoided people as she can during this time. To be able to heal people, she needed a laboratory. The oak circle helped her to imagine a building, large. Inside it, each magi will have his own place, place for study, but also to live, to have a family... In fact, a place to have a life, not just sleeping and studying. But also a place where to live with the others. A place for her chapter... No, not HERS, but THEIRS.
How many days did she work about it ? How many times they saw her, walking in the circle, counting her steps with a low voice ?
Her face shows her fatigue, fruit of her obsession, but also her happiness and her determination when she's coming to them.
"I have a plan !"
She realizes that they are discussing...
"Hum... I hope nothing serious happened these last days..."
"You do? Tell us about it!"
[OOC I assume you tell us about the building, no real need to do it in character.]
"Fascinating, I think my talents would be well suited to working on that project. Soon as the weather gets warm next spring I can set up my lab and invent the spell... if you'd like... it is your plan."