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Bella's house gets done, and she fills it up with things. She experiments with magic, and theorizes when she has more data to work with; when she runs out of her steadily increasing mana supply for a day she studies Quenya. One morning she sits bolt upright in bed, realizes she has not seen a single wheel since she got here, and runs off to Mahtan to explain the concept, which is, it turns out, new.
When Fëanáro is feeling sociable she hangs out with him. He finishes his novel. (In it, the school turns him over to social workers and adopt him out, he escapes his foster family, he encounters a dragon and talks his way past it with stories about Arda, he studies wizardry and is unreasonably effective at it, when the dragon opens a portal to Arda he sneaks through too and the Valar slay the dragon, he fixes his mother with magic, and then he masters planar travel himself and conquers Bella's plane.) He finishes his typewriter, too; Bella's of the opinion that it would have been easier if he made vowels separate instead of consonant-hats, but it works okay like so. She acquires one when there is more than one, and learns to type, because crystal balls are a long time coming.
She has made some progress, though. She finds the common thread in dud combinations that produced an aura, and successfully decomposes all her original spells into pieces and begins to make new combinations. Most of these are trivial like the increased character limit arcane mark. Reverse-engineering her undead-damaging spell, though, gets her (small) arcane healing well in advance of when she was expecting to have that down. So anybody who lives on her block and cuts themselves cooking breakfast can knock on her door - or that of anybody who's getting the spells as she turns them out - and get that seen to without bothering a Maia.
Once a month she sees Miriel. Bella doesn't have any ideas that land any better than "forget you forgot something". But forgetting the contents of that foolish, foolish oath is at least a holding pattern that lets Miriel pretty much live her life, so, therapeutic success? ...Bella makes sure to remind Fëanáro that he is very adorable and lovable and adored and loved.
subtly_artistic
If we'd done a bracelet we could slip it around both our wrists. Why did the Valar break them? That was mean!
subtly_artistic
They're worried a bunch of people will want them, and then people who wouldn't want them will have to have them to keep up, and they left mine because I was the one who noticed and objected in the first place and I asked them to leave yours and they wouldn't but they said they wouldn't break mine if I loaned it to you.
But - no one having them isn't better than some people having them when they don't want them, especially if they chose them. Would you? I'd feel so much better.
subtly_artistic
They said it was because I was the one who was distressed. I told them you were distressed too, and then they said some things about what you're apparently fated to do and... it wasn't good... and they don't want you sped up to do not-good things faster... but they said my necklace is mine to loan out. And I have free will so if you just hang out with me a lot maybe you will not be fated to do anything horrible.
subtly_artistic
Yeah. And I didn't quite have the nerve to ask them why if they didn't like the look of fate they were interrupting literally anything I do.
subtly_artistic
Good. Squeeze. I don't know how fate's supposed to work but I'm supposed to be able to mess with it, Mairon mentioned.
subtly_artistic
I don't know, it doesn't make any sense, but you do not have to be horrible because here I am and I'm not in the plan. Squeeze.
subtly_artistic
That's what they said, but I'm sure they didn't show me all the circumstances or if anything else was going on...
subtly_artistic
Um, don't swear a really dramatic long-winded oath in front of a crowd about something called Silmarils? And don't carry around a sword. And don't set any boats on fire.
If they told me I was doomed to be horrible and had to listen to them I think I'd freak out. I am pretty freaked out but you have a good argument that you being here changes things. Also, magic - I can fly so why would I have boats? I can do spells, why carry a sword?
subtly_artistic
Well, I'm not sure those are actually the important parts of what I saw, but they were definitely prominent images.