Here's Bella! "Let's go bother Raine, my mother will be working at this hour."

"Okay!"

She wants them to be in Seattle.

So here they are, in Seattle. In the park.

Some people are startled. Bella smiles at them. Nobody decides to make a scene about the teleporting girls.

They have a drizzly walk to catch Raine on her way to school.

She could make it stop drizzling. She supposes she shouldn't. Maybe this world needs this much rain or something.

Bella jogs up to Raine. She introduces herself, explains - mostly - thanks her. They hug. There is in human fashion incidental contact with Bella's hair in the process (not Raine's, it's too short).

She knows it's totally unreasonable to be jealous.

And then Raine continues on her way to school, having been invited to think really carefully about a wish and let Bella know when she's got one in mind and Bella is back from saving another world. Bella goes back to Lúthien. "My mother lives in Jacksonville, Florida - do you need a map or can you find her house or what?"

"I'm not sure." She tries taking them to Bella's mom in Jacksonville, Florida.

This is a room full of kindergarteners. Fortunately, they're napping. "Bella?" Renée mouths.

"- Sorry," Bella mouths back, "I'll wait at the house." And she shoos Lúthien out of the room and out of the school building. "Oops."

"I guess that is enough information to teleport by. Sorry!"

"It's okay. Next time maybe find the house and not the person. House is this way." Stroll stroll.

Jacksonville, Florida is much warmer than she'd realized this planet got. She skips along behind Bella.

"Renée's husband might be there, FYI."

"I thought she was your mom?"

"She is. ...my parents got divorced and recently-in-real-time my mom married somebody else."

"That is also not a thing Elves do."

"Kinda got that impression. Humans do it. My parents haven't been together since I was a baby. They get along fine though, some divorced couples don't."

"Did it bother you?"

"That she got remarried? No, not really, Phil's fine and she loves him. I moved in with Charlie so she could travel around with him when she can get away from work, because Phil's job involves flying to lots of places."

"There's been one remarriage in Elven history, after we found out that we don't die forever when we die. It was the Noldo King,and his son was furiously angry about it and hated everyone involved forever."

"Yikes."

"I think they kind of overreact a lot, probably if other Elves remarry it wouldn't turn out quite as badly."

"Well, one can hope, although given the strong monogamous tendencies and that dramatic counterexample I can imagine people being leery of the idea."

"I kind of don't expect anyone else to try it, no."