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.
New servants, then, or pretending to be. The Enemy likes toying with us. Sometimes we are rescued by a victorious invading army. Sometimes we die and wake up in Valinor. Sometimes we escape. And then it's always a lie.
Oh. Uh, I'm sure hallucinations say this all the time but we aren't hallucinations.
They do, he says patiently. It's okay, you're very pretty hallucinations and this isn't painful at all yet. You are welcome to keep it up.
...okay. So the place works right and everything, we didn't vet it extensively before we dropped everyone here.
It's lovely. Very comforting, has all my favorite foods, no one bothered me until I started itching to know what's going on and then you two showed up.
Okay. Uh, what's going on is I'm from another world and it has magic and I came here and deployed some of that and you can have as long here as you want but if you get bored of it the world is certified Enemy-free and stuff.
Awww. That's very nice. Thank you. I'll enjoy it while it lasts.
The forest gives it to you! It's very nice. I'll be okay. It's no trouble for you to make it last as long as you like, right?
It's not going anywhere. I just wanted to make sure it was doing its job and see if it came recommended enough to put some people from my world in it.
As long as they don't hurt us. I don't know if the forest stops people from hurting each other.
Bella doesn't know either. Palantir to Himring, does the person who wished it know?
Nope! No incidents of violence in the corresponding forest in Valinor but that's probably because it was Valinor.
Might not. Maybe I'll have a separate one for the people from my world.
As you see fit. His tone is awkwardly deferential.
Lots, sounds like. But at least they can be comfortable in the meanwhile.
We didn't know that prisoners of Angband come out believing it's another ploy by the Enemy.
Yeah. Explains why they wouldn't swear not to harm anyone - swearing anything if you think your senses and surroundings are currently being projected by the Enemy is a bad idea - explains why the one who wished the Enemy dead wasn't happy about it...
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