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"Learn the planar shift. I'm going to go get Rúmil."

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"Okay."

She makes herself pay attention to the notes.
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They arrive a minute later. He looks outrageously relieved to see her. "Bella."

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"Hi."

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"Fëanáro says we need to refine a planar shift so we can find a science fantasy planet that's not this one, before the Valar notice we're here?"

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"That's what he told me too."

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He scratches his head. "Maybe we should spend a few minutes considering whether that's the best plan, first."

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"...nothing else has occurred to me but I'm - out of the habit -"

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"Me either," he says. "Well, all right. Fëanáro, can you talk us through this spell?"

Fëanáro can, and does.
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Bella perks up slowly over the course of the explanation. "- did you get my notes out of my house...?"

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"It has been a bit of a mess in Aman since you left," Rúmil says. Carefully. "But yes, I did."

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"A mess...?"
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"No one's been able to contain Fëanáro. People went to Taniquetil to demand explanations and more consistent policies, there was an extended festival season to smooth over bad blood that failed to do that, people left for the Outer Lands and stayed there, there were protests of Mandos..."

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"- Mandos in particular, why?"

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"Reembodiments are getting - contested. I might have been indirectly responsible."

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"...because of the memory fuzz?"

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"Did the protests get anywhere?"

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"Reembodiments have been suspended." His expression is carefully neutral.

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"That's - that's not better."
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"It's not."

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"Let's see if we can find a plane that just doesn't have any gods."
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"That doesn't have any gods yet," says Fëanáro.

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- that startles a real giggle out of her.

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They both hug her. "We don't have much time," Rúmil says.

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