By this point, if there was talking or shenanigans going on in this classroom, Toby couldn't hear it at all. He may as well have been in a completely different room, and was totally lost to this activity. TOTALLY oblivious, and a little TOO focused, really, but what could you do.

Toby wasn't sure if he was seeing anything significant or not. A lot of time had passed and he'd had to stop and close his eyes to clear his mind after overthinking about two or three times... maybe he'd get there soon?

His brow was furrowed into a frown of concentration, blue eyes staring directly into the crystal ball and his face softly lit with the dim glow from the contraption. Many shapes and patterns morphed in and out of view but Toby didn't know if it was random fog and his imagination.

Pushing THAT thought from his mind too, he kept looking.

No... no there were DEFINITELY shapes in this thing. The same few coming up over and over again right now. All Toby could do right now was to concentrate, and see if anything came from it.

Progress was being made.