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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.
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.
We discussed with Eru the question that we touched on when you were considered whether to depart for Tol Eressea, the question of whether your fate should be changed to match that of the Eldar. Eru thinks that it should not. You are not bound to Arda, but ought to eventually depart it; you create and innovate and desire stimulation and excitement at the pace of Men and not the Eldar.
Yes.
Fëanáro is desperately unhappy about something different, that's something, but he's also more powerful and less happy, much much younger. And doing more as a result. At this rate he'll kill people before he's of age, which is in some sense an improvement since he can be partially absolved of those crimes.
Fëanáro is desperately unhappy about something different, that's something, but he's also more powerful and less happy, much much younger. And doing more as a result. At this rate he'll kill people before he's of age, which is in some sense an improvement since he can be partially absolved of those crimes.
Don't you? Careless, powerful, prone to angrily renouncing the love of everyone in his life because he insists he'll lose it anyway, currently blasting things for stress relief - it is a trajectory even more worrying than his last one.
It is not your fault. You did much good and we commend and applaud you for it.
It is not your fault. You did much good and we commend and applaud you for it.
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"Some of them are -" She's been taking patients and helping them, people like the ethernet, people can talk to their lost loved ones -
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"I - um - can I have a while to, to pack, if - if you're sending me to the Outer Lands -"
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No.
"No - no please I can't go back please I'll die or worse I don't remember how to think like people have to think there I'm all bent out of shape I can't go back I'll die please please please no please -"
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"The universe there doesn't work like here, it'll crush me, I can't go back I can't - please, please, I'll do whatever you want, please, not there, please I'm begging you I can't I can't -"