Taran El, a distinguished elven scholar, an expert in mathematics, mechanics, and natural history, recipient of four lifetime honors bestowed by the Academy of Truth.
A person immersed in scholarly research, industrious and devoted, one who could tirelessly stay in the laboratory, someone Lucy was always worried might suddenly die at their research site.
Now, this erudite scholar, in front of everyone, had announced his inability to cope with the geometric light body that descended from the sky.
Lucy lifted her head; her gaze passed beyond the crystal ball in front of her, falling upon the grand splendor spreading from the direction opposite the window. Even at midnight, the entire sea seemed bathed in "sunlight," and amidst that brilliance, the mountain-sized luminous geometric body still quietly floated on the water's surface, its flat walls of light like sheer cliffs between the sky and sea.