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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
Vána's meadows are a day's south of Lórien! Or you can ask someone to say hello, if they've known me long enough they needn't be particularly close.
She turns back to the massive quantities of stone she's moving through the air.
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Bella watches the house come together for a bit, then wanders back to the palace to see if Fëanáro is still in an inventive fugue state. ...She might need a hobby less mercurial than tagging along with a toddler and less resource-limited than experimenting on magic. Learning Quenya can be it for the time being.
Fëanáro is indeed still working.
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She sits by him and practices Quenya and studies the vocabulary she has so far.
This somehow does not distract him. He's very obsessed with this project.
subtly_artistic
That's all right.
Bella's not great at rote memorization so she can occupy herself drilling on what she already has without needing a new batch of words for a while.
Bella's not great at rote memorization so she can occupy herself drilling on what she already has without needing a new batch of words for a while.
Mid-afternoon an attendant comes to find Fëanáro and scold him for not eating and drag him to the dining room for a meal with his parents. He looks horribly unhappy about this.
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Well, the fruit she brought is languishing over there, so she can't correct the attendant.
She goes back to Lórien. Maybe Olórin would be entertained to teach her Quenya.
She goes back to Lórien. Maybe Olórin would be entertained to teach her Quenya.
He is delighted to! He only learned it himself recently, but it turns out by recently he means a few centuries ago.
subtly_artistic
That is probably plenty of Quenya experiences for her purposes. Hey look it's an alphabet!
He is bemused and then amused, and happy to be taught the alphabet as he teaches her the language.
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She writes down sentence patterns and more vocabulary, handwriting in Quenya gradually speeding up as she remembers how vowels work more reliably.
He's delighted by writing, and says so, and is happy to talk in Quenya all day and night, or their tree-equivalents.
Ah! Yes! Sleep! He's heard of the concept and has been told he shouldn't watch mortals at it. He'll go away.
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...Giggle. Yes, it is a little weird to watch people sleep.
Zzzzz.
Zzzzz.
Indeed, no one is watching her in the morning, or anywhere near her.
Fëanáro fell asleep, he reports with consternation, and can practice magic again, he reports more happily, and thinks he knows why his fast writer doesn't work, he reports with outright delight.
subtly_artistic
Well, then Bella can teach him a new spell! Arcane mark? Increased character limit arcane mark? Dancing lights? ...That one's not really useful here. He could also try one of the bigger spells, although he'll be able to fit fewer of those in per sleep.
Increased character limit arcane mark! He really does not like sleeping, even for magic.
subtly_artistic
All right, she has to make a new scroll for that one since he doesn't know regular arcane mark such that she can just describe the revision. He can watch.
He does. He's curious how to make magic scrolls.