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This is the wrong building. She could have sworn the RA said "take a left at Emily, first on your right", and Bella did exactly that, and here she is and the rooms in this place don't even seem to be numbered, it's all letters and names. She's not going to find Intro to Subtle Therapy in Room 206 like that. Maybe the RA meant take a left after Emily, not before Emily? Maybe she was supposed to go the other way around the quad and approach Emily from the other direction? She's going to be late.
Bella tries to get out of the letter-named-rooms building to go ask Emily for directions, but that's not a stairwell after all, and there's someone shouting at her not to come in and she flinches back and clonks her elbow on the door and boots or no boots she's down and she -
- is falling -
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Okay. So she heads into the palace apprehensively. It would be just her luck if the prince chose this moment to come down with a disease or something.
Back to the high-ceilinged audience room, where the people clustered around the King stare at her rather pointedly.
"Stranger," he says, "how should I know you?"
"Stranger," he says, "how should I know you?"
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Um. My name is "I-Isabella Mariel Swan," she says softly, out loud. Or just "Bella."
He flinches. My wife's name is very close to Mariel. It is good that you are safe in Valinor, Isabella Mariel Swan. My son desires to speak with you again; you will see him once a week, supervised, to tell him the things he so enjoyed hearing this afternoon.
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In my plane we don't have trees that glow like that so we measure time differently. Um, about what fraction of a Mingling have I been here so far?
You've been here since Laurelin was at her height, and now Telperion is waxing. Whenever both Trees shine at once, that's a Mingling. The white light.
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this is not how you explain things to somebody from another fucking plaaaaaaaane this is not even how you explain things to people who live down the street and happen to be another specieeeeees
I'm worried I will not be able to keep track of this in my first week of trying and I do not want to be late. Would it be inconvenient for someone to find me when you require my presence?
I'm worried I will not be able to keep track of this in my first week of trying and I do not want to be late. Would it be inconvenient for someone to find me when you require my presence?
subtly_artistic
"Apparently I'm supposed to just sort of sleep outside in a place where a house could go and compliment architects and help people with their houses until a house appears in my place where a house could go. Is what I was told. I don't really understand anything that's going on."