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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
Rúmil stops anyway, once he reaches the end of a verse. Hey, Bella. Good to have you back, we've missed you.
subtly_artistic
"I'm not here to stay, I just came by for Miriel's appointment. I might sleep in my house, I'm not a hundred percent sure I won't run out of mana and fall into the sea if I fly all the way back."
"Is it a continual-drain thing?" he says. "Suppose that makes sense. Well, good to see you however briefly."
subtly_artistic
"I couldn't get the duration long enough if it was one-time expenditure and I didn't want to have to re-cast on the way. And you too."
"Notice yourself working faster?"
subtly_artistic
"Oh yeah, much. The mind shield spell to ward off the time slidey thing is really complicated so I'm not seeing major returns on that right away, but when I pick something more conventionally doable as an interim project I'm blazing through it. Fëanáro, if I teach you to fly are you going to try to fly to the island?"
"No," he says instantly.
subtly_artistic
"...okay, good, because I'm not sure you have the mana for the whole trip and it would upset your parents."
"Why do you have more magic than me if I'm older?"
subtly_artistic
"I've been practicing longer and sleep more often so I can practice more frequently too."
"I need a spell for sleep," he grumbles. "Then I'd cast it first thing in the morning every day and sleep way more and get so good at magic I wouldn't need sleep all the time."
"So I can fall asleep! After I've used my spells! And then wake up and have my magic back!"
subtly_artistic
"Oh, if I'd known you wanted to fall asleep I could just do that for you, when I was around more, I thought you just liked being awake way too much!"
"I don't like sleeping, but I want more mana so I can fly farther, so I'm okay with sleeping more. Until I have enough mana I don't need to."
subtly_artistic
"Well, when I'm back full time we can invent a spell for it or I can just put you under by arts."
"Do you know how long you have to sleep for it to count? If I wake up after five minutes is my mana back?"
subtly_artistic
"Five minutes won't do it but like three or four hours will probably get you to at least half capacity."
He pouts. "No, not worth it. That's a really long time."
subtly_artistic
"I know. It's really annoying. Did you get anywhere on lucid dreaming?"
"I don't sleep enough to practice that, either," he says sheepishly.
"Unless you know a way to make me have dreams? Because I usually don't fall asleep until I'm super tired and don't dream and so can't practice lucid dreaming."
subtly_artistic
"...well, if you think it's because you don't fall asleep until you're super tired, that would definitely be the simplest thing to try changing."
"Maybe once you have your spell and I get more things done every day."