Seems a little harsh.

Personally I'm mostly just inclined to blame the Valar but this is mostly because I'm still pissed off at them for Dooming my family.

I thought you might be dead.

I'm not actually sure why I'm not. The Valar could have been right that they were able to protect me, or Materia might only care if you try to do science while in it and I was careful enough. If it's the first one you could have been killed trying to get me and it would have been perfectly reasonable to try to get you not to.

They didn't let me write. They didn't let me ever be alone, in case I was spell-designing.

Oh no, oh you poor thing. Squeeze. How'd you get around them?

Spell-designed with illusions, got invisibility, ran away all the time.

Maybe this will teach them a valuable lesson about doing things that are not guaranteed to backfire horribly.

I'm so glad I got out before you landed on me - and that you aimed at me and not the world -

I wasn't planning to do any science, just find you and go far away where no one could hurt us.

We could go to this world's Valinor, they won't recognize me or know anything about wizardry, right?

They might recognize you if they remember far back enough. There was a you here.

Uhh, they might recognize me, not sure, and anyway they'd recognize Bella as being human, which...might not go over well.

Why not?

Well, I'm pretty sure it's been thousands of years since I died, but--Melkor decided to stir shit by handing out prophecies of the worst human behavior in history and presenting it as typical.

Oh.

Also I think I heard something about a "no mortals in Valinor" rule, which apparently didn't apply to Imliss and I, although whether that was because native-to-this-dimension humans hadn't started yet or due to the bare fact of having come from another world or because Orome dramatically slowed our aging or because I got married to a prince and this would have made it a hassle to get rid of us I don't know. Although I suppose Bella's example points to the former two.

There's a rule like that now but it's because humans disrupt the bliss of Valinor.

That's me, going around disrupting bliss.

And I've been very disrupting the bliss of Valinor and no one's exiled me yet. I guess maybe now I might be exiled? I don't want to go back in case they make interplanar travel stop working.

Well, I was working on interplanar earwires so I could warn you not to go to Materia anyway, we can still invent those and tell people what happened.

Probably a good idea.

How close are you, can I help? I have the interplanar teleport, maybe they have parts in common...

I'm still making sure I remember all the pieces from the basic version; I haven't been here that long and didn't cast any spells at all while I was in Materia and don't have my original notes, so I'm rusty. You're certainly in better practice than I am even if you haven't specifically been doing earwires.

I could go back for your notes. Rumil saved all your stuff.

Do you think you won't have been missed? Or that you won't be noticed going back?