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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
"What were you getting at?"
subtly_artistic
"I was trying to work around to empathy for the bind I was hoping you could independently derive that she's in. If someone cannot drop a particular subject when someone else is in the room, it is on their mind a lot. I was going to suggest you imagine how distracted you'd be if you couldn't remember how to read."
"I would be miserable. But if I'd agreed to it for some reason I wouldn't constantly drive you away!"
subtly_artistic
"Whether she drives me away is beside the point. The point is about what it's like when I'm not even there and she can't try to do anything about it."
"I bet she's really sad."
"And it's my fault."
subtly_artistic
"I continue to assert that it is not in any meaningful sense your fault."
"Happened because of me."
subtly_artistic
"That is less obviously technically inaccurate but still centers the whole thing on you to an extent I think is wrong. People sometimes get depressed on their own."
"Not in Valinor."
subtly_artistic
"Eldar are different from the kinds of people on my plane but not so overwhelmingly different that I would be stunned if someone got depression one day when nothing interesting had happened to them at all. In Valinor."
"But it hasn't ever happened."
subtly_artistic
"Well, how do you know? Some people are very quiet about having mental illnesses."
"They'd have told my mother that they had it too. So she felt less alone."
subtly_artistic
"They might not notice. Some people don't realize they're in pain until they think about it in some way it doesn't normally occur to them. And if they noticed they might feel ashamed to tell anyone or like they weren't good enough to possibly help even by making your mother feel less alone or just too tired to go to Lórien and meet a queen or like they're intrinsically poisonous and would ruin the garden if they went there or something like that. People can think all kinds of things when their minds are broken."
"We should write a book."
"Yeah, that's a good idea."
subtly_artistic
"We could translate all my textbooks, if you like, people might want to read them without having to learn Pax."
"Sure! That's a good writing project. I am trying to alternate writing and doing and magic projects."
"But if I focused in one I'd have accomplished more. I'm not sure."
subtly_artistic
"Well, magic is a little limited in how fast you can go at it, even if you do sleep regularly."
"Yeah. It's not fair. I'm going to fix it someday."