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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.
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subtly_artistic
So how goes contact with the Outer Lands? Visiting spells should be done soon.
All kinds of news is bubbling in from the Outer Lands. Most everyone is still alive, though there are some deaths learned of and grieved.
subtly_artistic
...You'd think Mandos or one of his Maiar could publish announcements.
Someone should suggest it.
Someone does.
Mandos says that he can answer inquiries from family members after consulting with a dead person but won't be making announcements as a general policy.
Someone does.
Mandos says that he can answer inquiries from family members after consulting with a dead person but won't be making announcements as a general policy.
subtly_artistic
Well, that seems like a reasonable compromise.
Visiting spells and classes and etherscaping and oh look she can now summon and send people in and out of Valinor!
Visiting spells and classes and etherscaping and oh look she can now summon and send people in and out of Valinor!
Fëanáro wants to go. Fëanáro really wants to go and begs and pleases and wheedles but his parents are fiercely opposed. A lot of the Teleri go quite regularly. Some of their counterparts do the same.
subtly_artistic
Sorry, Fëanáro. Unlike running around loose in Valinor this would in fact be dangerous.
And probably for that reason is not super popular, except for people who have family on the other side.
subtly_artistic
Entirely reasonable.
She can give Outer Lands residents souvenirs! Earwires, say. Crystal balls; she can patch the ethernet to reach.
She can give Outer Lands residents souvenirs! Earwires, say. Crystal balls; she can patch the ethernet to reach.
Alqualondë grows rapidly under the new conditions.
Not really, except that the stone buildings extend farther inland and the docks are already crowded.
subtly_artistic
Well, the buildings being farther inland is something. It's not cosmetic changes she's looking to make but they at least indicate that she's successfully making changes.
She goes through some of her old notes one day and asks Fëanáro if he ever made or still wants the personal space spell.
She goes through some of her old notes one day and asks Fëanáro if he ever made or still wants the personal space spell.
People have been much better about leaving him alone, but sure, since spells go so fast, why not? Also if it just makes everything give you space, in general, perhaps it could be taught to people in the Outer Lands where there are monsters.
He is excited to do a magic research project with her; he's been very busy with metalworking. Which he's good at, did she hear that he's good at it. (They last discussed it an hour ago.)
subtly_artistic
"Yes, I have heard that you are good at it. Let's see, who did I hear that from."
"Mahtan? He says so. Aulë says so." And he settles down to work on a personal space spell.
They have a necklace; it doesn't take them very long.
subtly_artistic
Would he like it on an object? A ring, maybe, turned one way when people should bounce off and the other when he will accept hugs.
That would be the best ring ever, can she attach it to the glowing Elda-magic ring he made under Mahtan's supervision?
subtly_artistic
...Probably! This would be the first attempt at combining the magic systems in a single thing. What does the ring currently do?
Just glows. Making things glow is about the simplest thing Elda-magic can do, besides protection from the Enemy which they learned in the Outer Lands and is so simple it barely counts as magic.
subtly_artistic
"Okay. So let's see what we can find staring at it with wizard detections and then we can try to graft a spell onto it too."