And the people who are actually enrolled go to class.

Bella wakes up noonish to her alarm. She does herself a coffee thing.

She notebooks on the crystal ball for a while, quite a while.

And then she takes a deep breath and prestidigitates her hostesses' room tidy.

Lightning does not strike, a fairy does not climb in her window, she is not summoned to the office of Vice Chancellor Embries.

She nods to herself and starts outlining what she remembers and what she knows she's forgotten.

Daphne pops back in after classes get out. Hey, I probably should've warned you earlier, but a lot of people are going to assume you're sleeping with me if they find out you're staying in our room and especially my bed. It's not without precedent. Just correct them, they ought to believe you, I don't seduce people who are going to be ashamed after.

Um, should I correct them in one of the two nonlocal languages I speak, or telepathically, or what. For that matter how should I identify people who think this.

Oh, right. Well, if they smile knowingly, that's a sign. I could write you a note to show people?

If you like. I don't feel really urgent about people having this opinion, though. I just lived in Valinor, I didn't eat it.

If I thought you'd absorbed Valinor sexuality politics I wouldn't have told you I seduce girls.

Did Idaia tell you or did you just guess?

About Valinor sexuality politics? She told me the Bisexual Husband/Telling Off A Stranger story.

No, I mean did she tell you that I passive-aggressively gave a lecture about the god of the dead doing conversion therapy or did you guess that I had not absorbed Valian sexuality politics.

Oh. I guessed. Kudos.

Thanks.

How'd the god of the dead take it?

Didn't really react. I wasn't there that long by Valian standards, he might just not have gotten around to it.

Huh.

It wasn't among their stated reasons for banishing me, that was mostly about my influence on Fëanáro.

Oh?

Valinor makes it hard to care about the passage of time. It also made me sleep less, so I didn't suffer the full factor of ten, but when I noticed I invented something to make that not work on me, and I gave them out, and the Valar panicked and broke them all except mine, and I shared it with him and he kept going at breakneck speed, and - they had some prophecies about what he was going to do, which came to fruition in Idaia's version, and they thought making him faster was making it worse and I was changing things too fast for them to keep up in general -

Aha.

I'm sorry that happened to you.

Thank you.

I don't know which of you had it worse, but then, it's really not a contest.

I think she did, but yeah.

I do hope you can fix it.

I'll do my best. Might be able to get my Fëanáro to help, he's brilliant.

I'm not surprised, considering what Idaia's version accomplished.

Not sure if we want to warn Gloria before introducing them or not.