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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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"It doesn't eat him right away. It takes maybe ten days."
"Rúmil will you run and fetch it?"
"And stumble around touching everything in your room?"
"It's on the bookshelf."
"You could take Bella to get it yourself."
Fëanáro scowls. "Someone fetch me the most recent book I wrote. Please."
And a minute later someone does.
"And stumble around touching everything in your room?"
"It's on the bookshelf."
"You could take Bella to get it yourself."
Fëanáro scowls. "Someone fetch me the most recent book I wrote. Please."
And a minute later someone does.
"You can read it now," Fëanáro says. "Mahtan declined to teach me metalworking. He said I'm too young but his daughter's my age and he teaches her."
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"I wonder what the real reason was, then," says Bella, and she opens the book.
"It's because I'm not very likeable, probably," Fëanáro says.
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"Well, it could be that he thought you'd be a difficult student or a difficult classmate, which isn't the same thing."
"I probably would be a difficult student," he says, "but I'd still learn a lot and do a lot of interesting things."
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"I doubt very much he turned you down because he thought you wouldn't learn or do interesting things. That would be a hard mistake to make."
He grins. Just slightly. "I could ask Father to insist."
"I said," Rúmil says, "that he would probably not learn very much from an unwilling teacher."
"I said," Rúmil says, "that he would probably not learn very much from an unwilling teacher."
"But maybe he just has a wrong impression of me and once I prove myself he'll be happy to keep teaching me."
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"That would be nice; what do you have in mind for proving yourself?"
"Get really good at lots of other things and impress everyone," he says, "obviously."
"He likes you."
"Can you ask him what it would take for me to prove I'm good enough?"
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"Okay. Do you want me to ask before I go back to Tol Eressëa?"
"Yeah. So I can start working on it right away."
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"Okay. But first I'm going to read this story, it doesn't look very long."
"It's not. Cause I die." He turns back to the pottery.
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...right.
She reads the depressing AU of the first Arda novel.
She reads the depressing AU of the first Arda novel.
Rúmil starts singing to Fëanáro again. It does seem to calm him a little.