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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
He has raced off to work on everything he couldn't bring with him to the island. Rúmil is delighted to find out she's returned. "I missed you terribly! Congratulations!"
"I would. How many did you make?"
subtly_artistic
"Two so far but I can make more. If you have a necklace already I can just enchant that, tomorrow when I haven't just flown a long way."
"Lovely!! I'll find you tomorrow."
subtly_artistic
"I will be moving back into my house in the morning and I'll probably drop by here after that to see what Fëanáro's up to."
"A lot of things, at a guess."
"Five times as many! By the time he's fifteen I am afraid for the stability of this paradise of ours!"
"Invent a lot of things, some magic and some not, fly over to the Outer Lands and try to fix things there, maybe fly to the stars to see what they're like, honestly, who knows."
"I thought it would. Going to beat him to it?"
subtly_artistic
"That's a tall order. I will complement his projects respectably and see if I can get him slightly more well-rounded in the process."
"Which you're doing very well at. Thank you for talking with Finwë about taking him with you."
"He did. They were able to spend a lot of time together and he was able to tell her a lot about Fëanáro's childhood. She wants to suggest to Fëanáro that she and he try making a mechanical loom together but she's worried he'll be upset by the offer."
subtly_artistic
"I really don't know at this point - I started trying to walk him through perspective-taking as a sort of social skills exercise but I don't know how far I got or whether it'll even help. A mechanical loom sounds like something he'd have fun with in principle..."
"But possibly not if she suggests it." He sighs.
"At least Finwe and Miriel didn't have the five they originally hoped for. Can you imagine?"
subtly_artistic
"I mean, they might not all be exactly like him... I don't even know if he'd get along with a copy of himself. I think I'd get along with mes but I don't know about him."
"He was better than I expected around Nerdanel. I think he'd do all right with copies of himself. I doubt he'd do well with siblings with the whole range of Elda interests and abilities."
"They're not planning to have any more children."