Yes, everyone says be happy by thinking about happy things. For a while it made me feel sad, that I used to have things like that, and now just - nothing.

There's a few other low-invasiveness exercises in my book - She picks it up, flips through it. Forcing yourself to fake a smile is one of them, I assume you've done that.

For years.

Some people find exercise helps...

Running around?

Or whatever. Swimming, playing games that involve a lot of moving.

I don't really know any that'd be appropriate for a mother of young children and queen of the Noldor.

...any form of exercise would be inappropriate? Um, why?

The Valar don't do it, you know, it's unstately. I could dance or ride horses.

Dancing is totally a form of exercise. Horseback riding can be if you do it energetically enough.

But I should dance with Finwë, and he's - difficult to be around, he really wants me to be better and he blames himself that I'm not and I always find myself trying to pretend with him, even though I can't anymore.

Can you dance by yourself, or with a friend...?

If you think I should try.

It might help, and it's less potential for bad results than me trying to directly change anything in your mind.

Alright. Maybe tomorrow? I'm getting tired again. I'm sorry I'm so useless.

It's okay, I hear I'm immortal now. You can go back to sleep if you don't want another coffee thing.

You might just be very, very, very long-lived. Should ask the Valar about that. She yawns.

Sleep well.

Thank you.

And Bella hops off the bed and sits on the ground again, going through her books more slowly and comparing the timeline against the examples.

Some time later, Miriel's attendants and her escort and Rúmil appear. May we return? We realized we hadn't settled on a time...

Oh, yes, she went back to sleep, Bella says. How do you keep time here on scales shorter than days?

The light of the Trees peaks and then wanes; people've been speaking in terms of parts of an interval of that. It doesn't come up much. Hurrying seems so unnecessary.

There's hourglasses, she sends a picture, if anybody wants more precision than that. Fancy pocket mirrors tell time too but I have no idea how to make those.

Glass is a novelty and they all marvel at it, except Rúmil who marvels at shaping it like that.