"...do I wanna know?"

"Elves and Maiar are immortal and fall in love for the lifetime of the universe, so it'd be a lot of pressure on Bella if I fell in love with her, so I'm going to try not doing that. But if I could touch her hair and hold her hand and cuddle with her and kiss her then I'd definitely end up falling in love with her. So."

"...her hair?"

"There's a hair thing. I had to fast-forward through part of Fantasia."

"I'd never seen anyone older than five with unbraided hair when I met Bella."

"Doesn't anybody go bald?"

"...no?"

"Different species, Dad."

"All right then."

"Do you want to wish for something, Charlie?"

"Haven't got anything in mind."

"Okay."

"Maybe one day we will come back here and I'll be like 'Dad, I need this exact thing wished'."

"Sure, why not."

Should I let you guys have some time together?

A bit. You don't have to go altogether, you could finish Fantasia or something, but he'll wanna know what the loops have been like and stuff.

So she watches Fantasia while Bella catches up with her father.

It's a little subdued and there are many hugs. And then the humans want sleep.

She goes out in the woods and sings and practices teleporting.

Teleporting is pretty easy! She just wants to be a place and then she is. It drains her gem a little.

Then she will sing it back up!

This works just fine!

She doesn't venture out of osanwe range of Bella. She perks up as many trees as she can. She sings flowers underfoot. She considers how best to make Mars a nice place to live.

And then she sings the clouds away, more aggressively than she'd have risked before, so she can watch a nice sunrise.

The sunrise is lovely.

Good.

She settles at the base of a tree and coaxes a berry bush into season and waits for Bella.