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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 -
subtly_artistic
"It'd probably also work for him," Fëanáro agrees reluctantly. "But it pretty much does, we're all supposed to do what he says."
subtly_artistic
"Anyway, it's possible with magic or subtle arts to make people do what you want. It's a terrible thing to do to people."
subtly_artistic
"I know. I want to bring you. But I can go get a plant to make me glue alone if there turns out to be a reason not to do that. It won't wreck the whole project." Huggles.
"Okay.
When I thought that you were doing what I said because you were scared of me because of the evil gods in your world, I felt really awful. Like the worthless feeling only worse. I don't want you to do what I say because you're scared of me. I just want everything to happen how I want it to anyway without anyone forced or scared."
When I thought that you were doing what I said because you were scared of me because of the evil gods in your world, I felt really awful. Like the worthless feeling only worse. I don't want you to do what I say because you're scared of me. I just want everything to happen how I want it to anyway without anyone forced or scared."
subtly_artistic
Snuggles. "I think most people would like it if everything happened how they wanted it to like that."
"Most people do what I say if I say it the way my father talks, but I think they're thinking 'oh, right, Fëanáro is my prince and I want to do what he asks so he can be a better one', not 'am I really sure that he can't have me dragged away from my family for doing something wrong' and so I do it all the time but I didn't think how someone might be scared."
subtly_artistic
"I'm probably the only person who thinks that way, at least that you've ever met, and you don't scare me anymore." Pause. "Although if you're just telling people to do things because you want them and not because it will actually help you be better at princeing, and they're doing it because they think it'll help you prince better, that's a little mean."
"I want to do things so I get good at everything, and getting good at everything will make me a better prince. I don't order people to do things that don't teach me anything."
"Most things teach me things though because I really like learning things and there's so much to learn."