Yes, so he knows what's going on.

Where is he?

He finds them before they find him. Bella. Thank you.

You're welcome. Where would you like to do this?

We can find a private room.

And when they have done that, Bella says, Okay, I'm removing the amnesia now, and then she does it.

Oh, Miriel says. Oh, oh. And she goes very still.

You should probably do it again, she says, I can't think of anything better to do.

Bella has notes. She sends to Miriel only, not Finwë. I could try to also make you forget that you forgot anything, but that would be disorienting for you and tricky for me.

That would be - weird. Can I forget that you put it back?

I... have absolutely no idea what that would do.

Okay. Or forget that you can put it back?

Do you think you'd believe you'd consent to a permanent amnesia or would you rather think I made a mistake?

I can't consent to a permanent amnesia, that'd be breaking the oath. I can - I don't know what I can do.

It's plausible I could make a mistake and not be able to take it off, Bella says, if that's what you'd like to be told.

If you did then there'd be nothing I could do and I wouldn't have to do anything. But I can't tell you to do that now, that'd be breaking it and people'd probably be angry with you -

I mean, you can tell your husband that I'm going to make so you think I make a mistake and can't take it off, and then you can think that; but actually I'll do it reversibly like last time. And everyone else can just hear that your treatment is a private matter.

And take it off again in a month. You have to take it off again in a month.

That's going to get really hard to pretend about eventually, Bella says, because memories get really entangled; you're going to go around living your life under the impression that it's stuck forgotten, then it'll turn out not to be, and after that's happened a few times it gets incredibly delicate to change the memory thoroughly enough. Patient consent is not for the convenience of the therapist but usually it is not for the inconvenience of the patient to quite this extent.

Yes but I can't agree to it if it's not temporary.

So should I tell Finwë we're going to pretend you can't undo it?

No, that's not sustainable; me avoiding you is sustainable, just inconvenient. Just like last time till I think of something else to try which works for you.