She’s changed her ways. No more unethical experiments on her grad students - that might get her into trouble again! Much better to experiment on herself.
She ball now. And this time - unlike the failed tries on her students - she did it right. It made her more intelligent, better at multitasking, immune to primeval current side effects, and she no longer needs to eat or sleep, just like she wanted.
The Academy aren’t thrilled that she came back and they’re having a little conniption about “ball!”, so they’re keeping her locked up with Renalla, but they’re giving her research materials because damn this is fascinating!
You show up and she’s using three different sets of faces and hands to write three different set of notes, and a fourth face to absentmindedly sing along with the sweetings. Renalla’s giving opinions (some of them coherent) on the research.
(Is this one of those fanfics with student/teacher romance? Sure, she’s got all the required bits for sex under a few of those masks… give her a second to find the right ones?)