Bella wakes up in the hospital.
She is not critically low on gem clarity, so she has the next two hours to herself to think as long as she doesn't make noise, which she doesn't, and foxes all the monitors attached to her real quick before they beep, which she does; she could go out the window but she has no plans for this loop which require her to skip town. She clicks her heels together and gets into her costume and pulls out a notebook to organize her itinerary.
Spiders. Smart, bad neighbors, may or may not be people, I'm going to see if I get an emotion read as a double-check.
And do the spiders have emotions according to the thingamabob?
Yep!
Well, they register. How to establish communication is a separate problem.
Any chance it's just a them not liking Elves thing like the orcs have?
Uh, hi? Spiders?
No answer.
We're super powerful and can send you to another planet and even let you make wishes, but we need to know if you're people.
No answer.
I'm not an Elf.
No answer.
"You could try 'a realistic alternative is imprisoning you in this forest forever because you're really bad neighbors and we don't know what you would need on another planet if you won't talk to us'."
Uh, Luthien says, you should talk to me because otherwise we're going to have to imprison you in this forest forever because you're really bad neighbors and we don't know what kind of other planet you'd like.
Rustling and clicking.
I could make it a really nice planet. Perfect for you.
"Why are all the nonhumanoid aliens I meet such huge ripoffs," Bella mutters. "Okay, maybe somebody can pull off a neat space-folding wish or something, witches are proof magic can do space-folding, forest goes away and spiders get to be spiders in it and not come out."
She conveys this to the spiders, just in case.
The spiders send back something that is not in words but nonetheless communicates that that sounds lovely.
"Okay! Everybody'll be happy! Does a spider want to make the wish perchance."
She conveys this.
After a long time -
Yeah, got a spider who says they'll make the wish.
'I wish that no outsiders could enter the forest and bother us or even see that it existed'. That's not gonna do, is it.
I wish for the forest to be sealed in a magical barrier so that it and the outside world do not intrude on one another?
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