You were trying to work out how many people'd be affected. It's even less than I think you're thinking. But they're a population that has some people working for the Enemy and most of the rest vassals of the Noldor.

Do you have a ballpark guess of how many it is? Because for all I know the fluffs are only so selective on Earth because the population's so big.

Three hundred thousand, maybe?

So whether they'd be as picky about it being teenage girls or not would depend on a bunch of stuff. I have to be really careful interrogating them and a lot of what I think I know is really conjecture.

Okay. Let's save your world first, we'll have plenty of time to think about this afterwards. 

Yeah.

She can now see the city perfectly clearly. It's a bit ugly but she knows better than to say so. And it's very big and has an astonishing variety of stuff.

Anything you want to try besides Earth food? We've got some time to kill before dinner and bedtime.

Earth dances? Earth festivals? Earth prayers?

The month of the loop is pretty short on festivals, but if you're curious about local religion we could find you an evening service of something - I'm not sure where to go looking for dancing other than like a nightclub and it seems possible that if a rest stop was an overwhelming array of food a nightclub would be just plain overstimulating...

I'll take your word for it. I am very interested in Earth prayers but not if it's going to be a lot of trouble.

I don't go in for religion of any kind myself so I don't already know where to find a mass or something on a but it's Sunday, shouldn't be hard, the most popular religion in this area of the world does most of its stuff on this day of the week.

Okay. And then tomorrow meet your friend and avert her making a bad wish and becoming a witch?

That's the plan.

I think I like Seattle!

I'm glad!

Out they go, around they walk. Bella finds a Catholic church with an evening mass at seven p.m.; they can go back after dinner. Dinner can be this random seafood place near the church. They will have salmon.

Salmon is amazing! Seafood places are amazing! The Falas have it but they don't export it to Doriath, except pearls which are used to pay Dwarves, and she's never had any.

Lúthien being delighted about random food is pretty adorable. They can also have cheesecake, there's cheesecake on the dessert menu!

Cheesecake: beyond description. She is ecstatic.

Bella giggles and then off to church. She sits them in the back and tells curious people they are just checking the place out and translates the service (it's about the Crucifixion, fortunately, not The Gays) telepathically for Lúthien and can't translate the songs which are in Latin and declines communion for the both of them.

She likes the songs a lot. On the way back she sings them herself, nearly perfectly. 

Wow, you have a really good memory.

We have to. Singing is how we remember our history.

Oh, right, you mentioned the Noldor have writing but you don't?

Yeah. In Valinor it made a lot of sense, things don't decay there and they had so much excess time. We lived in the dark all the time, so it wouldn't really have helped us.