Ugh.

Yeah.

Fucking fate.

I suppose since they're not all on the same schedule we could go bother some of them and learn how to derail Valinors gently and without collateral damage.

I like this plan.

I'd rather there not be that many Valinors, but if there are, yes. Maybe we can even figure out how to talk so Valar listen.

That'll be a trick.

Yeah. There's probably some lack of consensus if you look, I don't know how exploitable it is...

Idaia says Tyelcormo said Orome probably would've been fine with letting people leave.

Yeah, I didn't wind up getting to know any of them very well as individuals and I'm extrapolating from little bits. I only mostly relaxed my fear of gods while I was there.

Orome was the only one Idaia and Imliss met, and only briefly.

I had to see Aulë right away because I came with a knife because my university had a mandatory weapons policy and the person who was showing me around was horrified and wanted him to fix it so it couldn't hurt anyone. And Lórien I met when I went to the garden to work with Miriel. And I saw all fourteen of them when I was at Taniquetil.

Well, I think they saw them in other contexts, but that's not the same as meeting them.

Yeah.

If nothing else they saw the Doom being handed down.

Nod.

Oh, look, a thrift store.

A thrift store! Bella looks for things that fit and steers clear of stuff with words on.

Daphne will translate words as requested but that's probably a good general principle.

And eventually Bella finds a couple more pairs of jeans and some shirts she likes. And a pair of boots that she plans to enchant when she reconstructs the improved dexterity enchantment and can upgrade from the ones she's got.

"Nice boots," she says-and-sends.

These ones or the ones I'm wearing?

New ones.

Thanks.

Thrift store underwear and socks would be a bit much; where's next?

Depends: does she actually care what her underwear and socks look like?