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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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"I pay attention to how I feel about hypothetical situations like - putting off things that I can technically do anytime, sleeping in when I wake up in the morning - that one might not work for you - spending an entire week celebrating a festival and not getting anything else done..."
He concentrates. "Okay."
"I think I do feel it," he says gleefully after a while. "And it's going to be gone! Forever!"
When they land he scampers all across the area, finding places he remembered from last time, before racing back to her. "Let's work."
He has ideas. He has suggestions. He concentrates very intensely and rocks around and writes a lot.
They do. Fëanáro explores the island whenever he gets bored, which is frequently, though he still makes a lot of progress.
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He's helpful and he's happy here; it's a good combination. She is hoping to have this spell done before she needs to go for Miriel's next appointment. Ideally well before. (She has made herself a wall calendar. She ticks off days every time she wakes up.)
He does not sleep as often, but likes the calendar and wants one. He makes himself one when he's tired of magic research.
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One day she observes about his sleep habits, "I think the way you stay up as long as you can is an example of being inefficiently impatient."
"Hmm?"
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"Well," she says, "when you stay up, you certainly have more done ten hours later than you would if you went to sleep. But since some of the things you want to do are 'magic' and 'lucid dreaming', I do not think you have more done a year later than you would if you went to sleep."
"It's just really hard to put things down when I'm in the middle of them."
"I can try stopping then," he says dubiously.
And that night when he finishes racing around the island and scurries back to write the next part of the book in which he gets eaten by a dragon - he wakes up in Mandos and decides to learn more magic before he goes back and gets revenge - he instead asks Bella to make him fall asleep.
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So she tucks him in and has him close his eyes and relax and then he is asleep.
In the morning he is disappointed not to have already mastered lucid dreaming but happy to have his magic. He doesn't spend it all at once anymore.
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That is good. He can help her feel out the fuzzy bits of the spell that way.
They work on that all day, save snack breaks and a bounce break for Fëanáro.