Renée comes home. "Bella? What's going on, who's this, what are you wearing?"

"This is Lúthien! And -" Bella produces a letter from Renée to herself.

Maybe a few days here, fixing everything. The war's not very likely to change overnight after three hundred years.

Renée handles her letter and her daughter differently from Charlie. She's more keyed-up and talkative about it, has more questions but seems to care less about the answers. She will however take "it's complicated" for an answer about Lúthien when she makes the same supposition Charlie did.

Lúthien will not volunteer a clarification.

Renée also feels more inclined than Charlie did to express concerns about Bella's safety as pertains to worldhopping expeditions with evil gods in the mix, but Bella's quite able to calm her down, albeit with a high ratio of "it's worth it" to "it's totally safe promise".

She's still got nothing on Lúthien's parents. Lúthien watches and smiles and doesn't comment. English is still a little hard to follow when people are excited.

And Renée is sure excited, this is all very exciting! She wants to see magic! She gets to see magic and is delighted. Would Lúthien like to sing?

She'd love to. Have a magic healing song that fills the whole room with the sense of it even though no one present requires healing.

"Oh, that's lovely!"

"Thank you!"

"What a marvelous voice you've got, I only wish I understood the words."

"I can try transmitting a translation while I sing!"

"That would be fascinating!"

More magical singing. She transmits a translation this time.

Renée is delighted.

Good! 

They park with Renée for a little longer, occasionally teleporting around as Bella finds people who seem like good candidates to have someone emotionally available and interested in an important problem, and run out of lowest-hanging fruit after a couple of days given the sometimes prolonged conversations required pre-wish, and -

"- you about ready to go home?"

"Yeah.

Let's go." 

And she wants them to be in Doriath outside the entrance to Menegroth.

...Bella's going to follow Lúthien's lead here.

I'm home, she says to everyone even though that's rude. I am safe and can swear that my absence had no work of the Enemy about it. My protector Bella is here with me. We will not enter Menegroth until Mum's confirmed everything's okay, please don't panic and shoot us.

And then she steps sufficiently close to Bella it'd be a tricky shot, if they are inclined to be rude.

Wasn't clear that 'panicking and shooting us' was an option. Our reset point is still the hospital, imagine how inconvenient that'd be.

Oh, yeah, it would have been good to fix that. Can we get a floating reset point, like 'go back in time a day'? Any point's going to get inconvenient otherwise...they're not likely to shoot us, they only shoot intruders who keep acting hostile after getting warned.

I've been assuming it'll be cheaper to get a reset point in this world if we've got somebody local to wish it for us. We can try for a floating reset if somebody seems like they'll have high enough bandwidth for it, although I'd probably rather be able to move it at will rather than have it fixed at 'a day ago' - if we find out something that would have been great to know a week in the past, say -

Yeah. Dunno who'd care that much about our reset point, though...

Melian comes outside.

They look alike, but Melian moreso - taller, more radiantly inhuman. 

"I swear that I am your daughter, that I intend no harm to anyone in Doriath's borders, that Bella intends no harm to anyone in Doriath's borders - she's a different species, they can't swear - that my departure was not a work of the Enemy, that I haven't served him, that Bella hasn't served him -"

It's Lúthien, her mother says, and she doesn't hug her, but the emotion with those words is almost overwhelming to everyone in range.