The spell is a pretty inefficient way to do any of that, and the colors will go when the spell does, but she is glad he's having fun.

For once he doesn't seem impatient with the inefficiency. He demands Rúmil looks at it, demands suggestions, adds them, makes the landscape more detailed.

Her divination only lasts so long even if she doesn't lose concentration in the middle of it. She helps with suggestions.

"I'm going to go sit still through an audience right now," he declares.

"Are they just sort of going on constantly?" asks Bella. "You don't have to wait for one?"

"Not at the time but most days, probably today."

"Okay. Good luck!"

He races away.

And she does more experiments on duds she knows don't do anything dangerous because she thought they weren't doing anything at all until she has got through them all and written the results.

Rúmil observes, smiling.

And eventually she's out of mana for the day. I think it's lunchtime.

We probably shouldn't eat at the King's table, what with Miriel still thinking you're in Lórien.

Yeah, I was thinking of going back to the square, I was writing down names for things and everybody got excited but I didn't have room to taste everything and a lot of it looked yummy.

Sounds great, So they head out.

And eat delicious things, and if anybody who wasn't here yesterday wants to tell her the name of a food she will gladly write it down.

Several people do! Several people also want to learn to write!

Well, she only knows how to write in Pax, the Quenya alphabet is a work in progress, but she will happily explain the sound correspondences of Draconic to anyone who wants.

Anyone who wants is quite a lot of people. They're going to call it bells-script, Rúmil mutters.

It has a perfectly good name! It's Draconic! For that matter there's a word for glass too.

But no one's met a dragon, and they have met you!

Are the launderers going to be bella-boxes and the crystal balls going to be bella-spheres and so on? Half the things there are will be named after me if this keeps up.

Probably bel- will become a prefix people think of as synonymous with 'invention'.

She giggles.

He makes notes for the Quenya alphabet.

I should probably make a serious attempt at learning Quenya once there's a finalized alphabet for me to learn and I can take notes as I go.