I'm sure she'll come right back if she learns you are. She seemed most sensible when she thought you were out of reach - I wish you could do something you can't dispel for a month, no matter what she tried. Can you do that?

Um, I could do something I couldn't dispel at all but not something that I couldn't dispel for a month.

He frowns. Well. She was conversant and gathered lots of fruit to take with her back to Tirion and seemed alive, if single-minded. That's something.

Yeah. It'll - buy time, I guess, while I think if there's anything else that might work.

I'd like to help, but I take it you can't describe the situation in enough detail I can offer suggestions.

Not unless she asks me to.

You did very well, Bella. You should be very proud.

Thank you. Pause. Is your synaesthesia still there or did it knock loose on its own, I forgot to take it off.

It went away after a few hours, is that not what's supposed to happen?

It might have lasted as long as a couple days on its own and I would've taken it off earlier if you were done with it.

I think I might have been interfering with it, I got everyone to sing very loudly and I tried to osanwë them all the colors and then different colors to see if I could generate the same thing without having a sense for it and then we ended up swimming and singing underwater.

She giggles. Well, obviously subtle artists at home have never experimented to see if that affects duration, but maybe. Do you want to see if my leaf can take passengers rather than go back to Tirion the long way?

Sure!

Bella steps past the tree. "Turns out the thing doesn't take passengers, at least not obviously."

He spins around to look at her. "Were both people touching the thing? Or just touching you? I was thinking if I designed something like that I'd make it move the person holding it."

I was about to suggest that, he says, smiling. He takes the leaf.

And tap to the tree -

And they're both in the garden. Fëanáro, now watching very intently, looks smug. "I thought that'd work."

Bella puts the leaf in her boot. "And you were right! Oh, did I remember to tell you Rúmil's working on an alphabet for your language?"

"I mostly have not been speaking Pax to anybody but you," Bella says to Fëanáro, "only little bits. I'll translate for you to Rúmil if you want to keep practicing it though."