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.
Whenever you like, agrees Bella.
Dinner! They can get fancy grilled cheeses with pesto and avocado on them and fizzy lemonades. Introducing Lúthien to foods is fun.
They sure do! Probably comes of having to eat three times a day!
That's a good point! You'd get so tired of berries and nuts even though we have lots of varieties!
That and I don't think nuts and berries are actually nutritionally complete for humans.
You're not having health problems from the narrowed diet or anything?
Well, I've got a ton of food stuffed in my shield, all kinds of stuff I'll eat at room temperature. I guess I could start storing more variety now that I can be profligate with magic, heat it up that way.
And we could go over to Cirdan's, they have lots of fish and lobster and I think grains the Noldor ship them.
When they were besieged they had nothing but lobster for several years. Ulmo, the Vala of the Waters, was helping them but can't do much about crops, and they'd be shot at if they went out fishing. So he just sent lobsters racing across the shore at them, all the time.
...that's an interesting mental image. No crabs? No seals? No turtles?
Dunno. There were probably some crabs and seals and turtles, but what we heard tell about was lobster.
I read once that lobsters used to be so common that they were considered poor people food and you weren't allowed to feed them to prisoners more than once a week, but now they're a delicacy.
Well, they're still common back home, and not just in Valinor where everything's common.
Well, now it's got its own problems because the Enemy destroyed the Trees, but when it's healthy every thing that ever walked or grew on the earth lives in Valinor, so it has lots of species that don't exist anywhere else anymore - like dinosaurs that went extinct in the first war of the Valar and Melkor - and also all the plants are edible and nutritionally complete so no one needs to depend on anyone else to survive if they don't want to, that's part of what's supposed to make it a paradise and a place of healing.
Sounds nice. Dinosaurs are extinct here, have been for sixty-five million years about - we have some of their bones fossilized though.
The first war of the Valar and Melkor was a long time ago but not nearly that long. Maybe five million? I don't know if that's long enough for fossils.
I think it is. If you want to see some dinosaur bones we can go to a museum that has them.
The nice thing about the time loop is that I can take as many breaks as I feel like!
There's some annoying limits - I have to go through an irritating rigmarole to spend time with my parents, I have until you came along had to take time to kill witches now and then, and it all has to take place in winter - but I am actually pretty capable of resting during downtime in a loop.
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