She is still enchanted by Fantasia.

Good.

When the muffins are out of the oven Bella brings her one.

Wow, these are really really good!

Thanks!

I wish there were a way to take this home, it's so pretty. Everyone would love it.

I have one of basically every object I encounter during any loop pattern in my shield if it'll fit, and then some. This does not include an entire television but it does include a small computer and a DVD drive. People in your world will not have to lack for Fantasia.

And a little bit while later there is a song with a lot of animated hair-brushing and she buries her head in her hands and starts giggling.

I totally forgot this part, I can fast-forward it if you want?

Could you? Sorry!

No problem. Skip skip skip okay looks like they're done messing with their hair now.

Oh, good.

And then Bella checks the time again and says, Here he comes, and she pauses Fantasia and turns the TV off and shoos Lúthien upstairs. Does Lúthien intend to eavesdrop?

She wasn't intending to but she can totally hear them perfectly clearly.

"Hi, Dad."

"- Bells - how -"

"Have a muffin, sit down, I'll explain - well, sort of -"

Sound of paper rustling. Silence.

"Says you can show me -"

"Yeah. Like so -"

"...uh-huh."

This is so profoundly not how Lúthien's father would react.

She sits on the bed and rebraids her hair.

"So - uh - what's this - go-round for."

"Trying to negotiate with the aliens, actually, more comfortable to do it from home. Might take a few tries but once I pull it off I think I'm done -"

Sound of hug.

Well, that's probably good.

"...and it gets weirder, not mentioned in the letter because this is actually the first time I've explained the weirder part to you."

"...mm?"

"The reason I'm negotiating with the aliens this time is that now I have something they want. Uh, a few loops ago, someone landed in my hospital room with me who isn't usually there. She's from a whole other universe, with its own magic, and she's got some, and some of it adds up to an infinite energy hack, and I'm going to try to trade it to them."

"Sounds dangerous."

"It is, but, y'know, time powers. I got her wished into the loop with me. She's upstairs."

"...all right."

"D'you want to meet her? She's just as comfy camping out in the woods out back if you'd rather not have her around but -"

"- yeah all right."

"Lúthien?"

She comes down the stairs and curtsies. "It is lovely to meet you!"

Hug is ongoing. "Hullo," he says. "I'm Charlie."

"I'm Lúthien."

"They got infinite energy where you're from?"

"No, Dad, it's a hack, it's a combination of an emotion-affecting thing and the local ability to convert emotion into energy," says Bella.

"We might, though, there are songs that could probably do infinite energy on their own. My world has different problems."

"Yeah, so, uh, I'm probably going to go back with her and fix that too after here's sewn up, but I'll have a wish-granting thingy and infinite energy to power it, it'll be a piece of cake," Bella says.