"I hope you eventually have gentler standards for feeling like you deserve to be alive," says Bella, "but I hope you also accomplish everything you want to do."

"Even the becoming a god?"

"I do think you'd be better at it than the ones already on the job."

He nods solemnly. "Can I be alone so I can work? Hugs are nice but I think they make me less productive."

"Sure." She unhugs him.

He scampers off.

Lórien is quiet and peaceful and happy to provide things to practice her safe spells on.

Most of the recombinations straightforwardly and uninformatively don't work. This is to be expected; she diligently writes everything down. She casts a magical detection spell on its own, first, to see if it picks up local phenomena in addition to her knife and her boots, as a control. (Heh. Controls!)

The detection spell detects no magic, and the universe has no objections to her using a control!

Yaaaaaay!

As long as she's in Lórien she'll be uninterrupted by Fëanáro or Miriel or Rúmil.

She spends the night, then eats breakfast, collects variously-flavored fruits for Fëanáro, and goes to see if anybody's in the courtyard.

For once it's deserted.

She leaves the fruits on a piece of paper, labeled with their flavors, and then locates Miriel's mind and routes around it on her way to her houseplot to see how that's going.

Four different people have left a total of ten different proposed designs on her doorstep. Word has apparently gotten out that she likes parchment and ink, because there's a great deal of both.

Ooh! Parchment will be useful when she has more useful than silly spell experiment results. She sifts through the designs, picks one she likes, and wonders how the heck she is supposed to figure out who left it there.

Several people recognize that designer's style and are happy to take her to the designer's home.

The designer's home is wood, spacious and airy, the floor some kind of stone that looks like swift-running water by the bright Treelight, and the designer is delighted to meet Bella and happy to pull down sheafs of parchment so they can modify the plans together.

This is a lovely way to spend a morning!

Bella invented glass, so perhaps she'd like glasswork featuring in the design of her home? The mosaic is a brilliant idea, it could be a whole facade or a floor or - you could do something like a mosaic for a window...

Glass is a traditional window thing, actually. You can make it colors and arrange them in a mosaiclike fashion! ...Also she didn't really invent glass.

Well, it didn't exist and then she suggested it and now it does exist. People are calling it 'bella stone' already.

...Oh wow. Okay. Well.