It's only been a couple of minutes. I bet no one's even noticed; I go missing a lot.

So you should probably go soon or not at all.

And maybe get Rúmil. Who I hope has not found the note because it's really not his fault - is it?

I think he was also working on a way to come get you but he wouldn't admit he was and he wouldn't let me help.

Then why do you think he was?

Because he tried talking me out of it and all his reasons were reasons not to do it carelessly and I said so and he said that of course getting you back was important but I was going about it very carelessly and you wouldn't want that, and I said you'd want to be rescued and he agreed.

Well. He was right. It would have been terrible if you'd landed in Materia and gotten eaten.

Then everyone should have helped me do it so we did it safer.

I really wish I could say that people learn not to try to stop you from doing things by the time you grow up but they really don't.

By the time I'm grownup I'll be epic and it won't matter.

Yeah. I wish my Feanaro had learned wizardry when he was your age.

It could still matter for social reasons even if no one has the power to stop you from doing anything anymore.

I am the crown prince of the Noldor.

My version of you was not so much interested in kinging and was planning to pass the crown down to his eldest son when Finwe retired.

I don't want to be King but I like that people don't try to tell me not to do things. I mean, they still do. A lot. But less.

Yeah.

We should write up lists of goals and what exactly we need for them and which steps are necessary for which other steps and stuff like that.

Go get Rumil and Bella's stuff, save my children, become epic?

That's three goals. I think the first one is the most immediately achievable.

(Bella writes these goals down.)

He goes off to get Rúmil and Bella's stuff.

He is back a few minutes later with Rúmil and Bella's stuff.

Rúmil beams at her.

"Hi! I am not eaten! Nor still in Materia!"

"I'm so glad," he says. "I was terrified for you and Fëanáro both. Where are we?"

"I found an interplanar bar and Idaia here let me into this world, which is apparently an Arda a long long way in the future from ours where instead of me they got Idaia and her sister Imliss showing up, later on."

"I see." He hands her her notes. "Well, that seems like one of the better possible situations to throw you at. What's the light source?"

"It's a sun, like they have in Materia and our original world, which is super weird."