Or maybe if you could stay near her without expecting to be swallowed up you could hold my gem and smash it if I didn't come out, but that's not great either, and if she got you anyway...

Telling my heart to stop sounds easier than smashing your gem.

Though it's possible that my body being destroyed doesn't count as me dying for reset purposes, come to think of it.

...not sure. I didn't make Raine go into a lot of detail on what to count.

Then let's not count on my body being destroyed to be a reset until we've checked or it's happened and worked.

Yeah. So we try to find her pre-witching, and if we can't - fluffs.

Yep. 

She closes her eyes and starts singing.

Makes for a pleasanter speeding hurtle to the airport.

At the airport, there is a considerable amount of timestopping, and then Bella and Lúthien are in a cargo hold, which is indeed kind of horrible to be in. You might want to try to sleep through this.

Okay. 

She closes her eyes and sings to herself. After a while of this flowers start sprouting everywhere.

Bella is not sure how singing as opposed to being sung to can help but she doesn't interrupt.

It means that there is a beautiful thing - singing - in the environment. She makes herself comfortable and keeps going. A sound starts up; she opposes it, it's a horrifically loud and ugly sound.

The plane halts.

- are you interfering with the plane engines? It needs those.

Is that the noise? I told it to stop - sorry -

I just hope you didn't do it enough that they decide they need to ground this plane.

A minute later the engines start up again. She does not oppose the noise; she does curl up into a ball and sing flowers all over her, cocooning her.

The plane is delayed two hours, and by the end of it Bella's considering finding a different one and stowing away on that, but eventually they get in the air.

Sorry. Usually opposing noise doesn't oppose the source but I guess depending how the source works it could have done.

Plane engines make a lot of noise because they're burning fuel to spin very fast?

I guess I might've opposed the spinning if it was what was producing the noise.

Sorry about airplanes. They suck. They suck more if you don't get to sit in the main cabin but honestly that's not a lot of fun either.

It's okay. We can survive decades of torture in Angband, we aren't dangerously fragile just because, when we can be, we're picky.

...'it's not decades of torture in Angband' is not the most pro-airplane sentiment I can imagine but okay.

Sorry, I'm not going to come up with much more generous than that. It does suck.

Yeah. If there's anything I can do to make it more comfortable let me know, I've got noise-cancelling headphones but they'd make it hard to hear yourself sing probably...

I can probably do flowers that are better noise-insulation if I want, there's no reason they shouldn't be extremely insulating flowers...

And she sings louder.

Bella pulls a pillow out of her shield and cozies up and listens to the singing.