Miriel's better, when she's functional, but yours wouldn't have had her and mine didn't settle into a particularly normal-looking filial relationship with her even after she was fine.

Well, I suppose it would be kind of ridiculous to expect Curufinwe Feanaro to do anything normally.

There were cute bits, though, they were working on a mechanical loom...

Ooh?

Bella shows her! Did you ever see any of her tapestries, they're exquisite -

I did! They're amazing.

She's a lot like him, similar sort of - energy.

Energy?

She's interested in different things but she's interested in them in almost the same way.

I wish I could have met her.

Well, maybe you can meet mine, and maybe we can get yours out of Mandos.

True! We are getting people out of Mandos.

And Bella is if she does say so herself a way better therapist than Mandos. What kind of classes are you in?

Mostly the same kinds as Daphne. I'm less into biology for its own sake than she is, but it seemed like the best avenue to figuring out how to beat old age.

Well, have fun. When you're done I should have some scrolls.

I look forward to it!

And Bella goes back to the room and inks out prestidigitation and a few more besides. Circa lunchtime: Should I meet you at the cafeteria for lunch?

Sure, I'll teach you appliances at dinnertime.

Cafeteria! Longbread sandwiches! Bella attempts to sound out the labels on the food.

She is mostly successful and Idaia corrects her when she isn't.

Hooray.

And then back to scrolls! She has to cast a couple of things to make sure she remembers them well enough to scroll them.

What do you recommend to start with?

Your choice of a sound illusion, a light illusion, or the one that does minor teekay and cleans stuff and so on. Or the arcane mark if you already have a glyph you want to use for it.

Ooh, no, not yet. What are the necessary characteristics for such a glyph?

I invented a longer version but the basic one that I scrolled it can't be more than six characters. They can be very fancy characters, though, I have an ambigram of 'Bella' in the Draconic alphabet. She displays a notebook thus marked as of a few hours ago.