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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
"How do I order things like that? I need to be doing all of them right now!"
subtly_artistic
"Well, the only people who speak Pax around here like reading just fine. So the alphabet for Pax can wait. The plan for how you'll sit still involves learning some magic, so Prestidigitation comes before that, at least. You've started your book and haven't started a comic so the book comes before the comic."
He relaxes slightly. "Yeah. Right. Okay."
"Thank you for making my Mom a little better."
"The problem is I can't work while hugging. Do you know any solutions to that?"
subtly_artistic
"Yes." She sits, turns him around on her lap, and reaches for the scroll with one arm. "Voila. That's a Kharoline word that Pax gobbled up."
He snuggles. "Prestidigitation?"
He can't cast it because he used all his energy making noises. This frustrates him tremendously.
subtly_artistic
Poor Fëanáro. "You'll be able to cast it later," she assures him, setting the scroll aside.
"It's not that I don't get it well enough?"
"Okay. When I rest. I don't want to rest, I want to hug and work."
And he snuggles and writes.
subtly_artistic
And she reads over his shoulder, and with her free hand outlines a plan and priorities for reinventing wizardry.
The person who opens the door definitely notices Fëanáro; she takes a step back out of the room, looks at the doorframe to make sure it is the room she was intending to be walking into, and then steps back in.
"Hello?" she says in Pax.
Fëanáro doesn't yet speak Pax, so he doesn't understand her, but he does hear the voice and jump and clutch the book to his chest to protect it and look for a place he can run to. He would have to dart through her at the door. He freezes instead.
"Hello?" she says in Pax.
Fëanáro doesn't yet speak Pax, so he doesn't understand her, but he does hear the voice and jump and clutch the book to his chest to protect it and look for a place he can run to. He would have to dart through her at the door. He freezes instead.
"You, obviously! I don't know anyone else!"
subtly_artistic
"Oh, I thought you might have decided to make someone up for this part."
"I don't know enough about people where you're from."
subtly_artistic
"Are you going to write this whole story without any other characters?"