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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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subtly_artistic
"I kind of wasn't going to stop at all and then got tired. So maybe." He shrugs and runs out of the room.
subtly_artistic
...Bella sets the arcane mark scroll back on the desk and picks up where she left off when she went to bed.
Fëanáro, miraculously, does not interrupt her all day.
subtly_artistic
She hopes he didn't collapse of magical exhaustion or something, that would be embarrassing. ...She'd probably have heard from Finwë about that.
She finishes the scrolls she knows, all sixteen of them. She puts them in piles, one with the sound spell on top and a note saying not dangerous and one pile with a note saying dangerous!, just in case Fëanáro wanders into her room later and decides that the best possible next action is to decipher a scroll having learned to read exactly one; at least it can be arcane mark and not acid splash.
And then she goes out to make some progress on her house.
She finishes the scrolls she knows, all sixteen of them. She puts them in piles, one with the sound spell on top and a note saying not dangerous and one pile with a note saying dangerous!, just in case Fëanáro wanders into her room later and decides that the best possible next action is to decipher a scroll having learned to read exactly one; at least it can be arcane mark and not acid splash.
And then she goes out to make some progress on her house.
Word has spread that she is tutoring Fëanáro in magic, apparently, and she has no shortage of offers to design and build her house.
subtly_artistic
Cool! She makes inquiries about the indoor plumbing thing and decides she wants windows once plate glass has been invented and shows her floor plan to relevant persons.
Several people are happy to work up a complete design for her right now, if she pleases!
And now Bella's house is well underway.
subtly_artistic
She thanks everybody... sifts through her presents again and gets them all out of the way of construction... and heads back to the palace.
When she approaches it she hears Rúmil. Bella? Miriel's here."
subtly_artistic
How's she doing? Which way should I go to the courtyard to avoid running into her?
He charts a mental map through the palace. She's okay. She talked to Finwë and he said he thought you'd already gone to Lórien and then she sort of relaxed, like if it couldn't be done it was okay that it wasn't, and told him she wanted the memories back so badly and he promised she could have them back in a month and keep them if she then desired. And then Fëanáro came and is now reading to her and they are very much not okay but she looks alive.
subtly_artistic
Bella makes her way through the path provided to the tree. Not okay like...?
She's very awkward around him and he's clearly miserable about it.
subtly_artistic
Oh dear. Bella had been hoping that not remembering what she forgot would help with that. Apparently it can't compensate for Literally Fëanáro's Entire Childhood. Too optimistic.
Hello magic tree. Hello Rúmil?
Hello magic tree. Hello Rúmil?
Sorry I can't sneak out to join you; I'm keeping an eye on things here.
I'm worried there'll be a problem whenever she catches sight of you, but you shouldn't spend all your time in Lórien either. And Tirion's a big city. Use your judgment; it seems quite up to the task.
subtly_artistic
Problem is that my leaf takes me to the courtyard of the palace. Which Fëanáro's not allowed to leave.
Right. You could ask Lórien for a modification? I'll keep her away from the courtyard, anyway.
subtly_artistic
How'm I going to do lessons with Fëanáro? I mean, I guess in the courtyard, if you can keep her out of it consistently...
Or my room, it'd be rude for her to come in there and he does it all the time.
subtly_artistic
Okay. Once I know the palace layout better I should be able to avoid her if I'm paying attention and she doesn't lurk to pounce on me, anyway, I can sense who's whereish. I'll be back, um - later.
See you, Bella.