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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
And they are in Lórien. "I will ask if anyone wants to meet you," he says. "I don't know if they will."
subtly_artistic
"That's okay, I understand if they don't want to indulge my curiosity especially this soon after coming back."
"It's been a bit of an overwhelming transition. You die by accident by Cuivienen - we don't have anyone back who died by Enemy hands - and you wake up in Valinor. We didn't even know that death wasn't the end."
"I've enjoyed being able to talk with them about everything. Introducing people to Valinor is a joy and we have a lot in common and I think I am a reassurance to them."
"I wonder if reembodying them on Tol Eressea or something would be better. Less to adjust to. But Mandos can't work that remotely, I don't think."
subtly_artistic
"- well, the necklaces bring a little of Tol Eressëa here... Probably not the important parts, I bet the slide is actually comforting if you're that disoriented, it wouldn't do to be disoriented and in a panicked hurry too."
"Yes, I doubt anyone would benefit from the horror you would feel at having missed a thousand years on top of the confusion at everything else."
subtly_artistic
Nod. "I'll wait over here for a bit, if anybody wants to talk to me you know where to find me." And she pulls out her notebook of the moment and works on her lecture while practicing doing teekay on nearby twigs with less than full attention.
He returns a while later. "People were interested, but not ready yet. Sorry. What's the lecture shaping up to be about?"
subtly_artistic
"Advances in the reinvention of wizardry! Breaking out of rigid spell forms to do things like sustained flight, magic items, how I handled the anti time slide thing without a pivot point."
"I shall have to lean on people to secure an invitation! Ready to head back?"
subtly_artistic
"Sure." And back they go. "Who would you have to lean on? I didn't realize they were particularly limited-invite."
"Your last one was very popular, they're limited by the size of the room they acquire if nothing else."
"I suppose we could start holding talks in the music halls."
"They're astonishing. That was the first major project here in Valinor, it required inventing so many new concepts, so much notation, so much experimenting - I was having a difficult adjustment and it was glorious and so good for us."
"Helped. Lots of people were involved."
"It's always full. All sorts of concerts. They're inventing new instruments. It's such a delight to feel like you made the world better for people."
subtly_artistic
"I remember telling some people about lutes, did anyone make lutes?"
"They did! They're trying new wood and metal-bodied things these days, I think."