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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
subtly_artistic
I mean, maybe they like that no one finds out and spoils their mystery? I agree with you, I'm just - trying to understand the mindset because I know not everyone feels like I do about it.
Reasonable. And yet you said science fantasy is popular, so lots of people must dream of it.
subtly_artistic
Sure. I actually didn't read that much of it. Felt - dangerous. But I read a little and some people are really into it and it's probably not all sheer cool factor.
Want to build a fire? We don't need it for heat but I alway start yearning for cooked things when I spend too long in Lórien, and I still find them reassuring deep down.
Yes, please!
We can ask for some. I think it'd be nice if the trees figured out which branches aren't getting enough sunlight and won't stick around as the trees grow, and if they could spare any dropped those branches for us.
subtly_artistic
Giggle. How far exactly does one go before that stops working?
It doesn't tend to work if you don't sincerely think the forest would be a more peaceful and joyous place for you if it happened, and it can't do anything that requires intelligence - no reciting poetry.
subtly_artistic
I mean, you said that only works near the heart of Valinor or something like that?
Within each of the Valar's domains, and in a manner specific to that domain. So peace and joy here in Lórien, in Aulë's home I'd have better luck if I asked for things that'd help me learn and marvel.
Edge of the forest.
No. Oh, he says, I bet we can't do anything that could land on someone's heads or startle them. We'd be happier if the trees indicated which branches were safe to take, and we could climb up and get them?
subtly_artistic
Even with my boots I wouldn't feel safe climbing a tree. Maybe they could slowly bend down branches and let them go when we grab them.
A nearby tree does this.
And it comes loose in her hand.
There's another tree, a short distance away! And then another one!
subtly_artistic
Branch branch branch -
Is this enough to cook with? I've never cooked over a campfire.
Is this enough to cook with? I've never cooked over a campfire.
Should be. Can I see your fire magic now?
subtly_artistic
Mm-hm. Um, it will be very nice and peaceful and everything if the fire doesn't catch on anything else...
And she scoops the branches all into a pile and leans over it and makes a gesture and murmurs a word and holds her hand palm-down over the wood. Fire bursts forth and lights up the wood, which burns merrily.
And she scoops the branches all into a pile and leans over it and makes a gesture and murmurs a word and holds her hand palm-down over the wood. Fire bursts forth and lights up the wood, which burns merrily.