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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
I can't think of problems I'd want to solve with killing people but they'd have to be really awful bad problems and being stronger would be good.
subtly_artistic
I think you were trying to steal their boats. It was in sort of disjointed fragments.
So flying solves that. If I can do things I need to do then even if the situation comes where it would be worth it to do something awful I won't have to because there'll be a better thing I can do.
I'm scared.
I just shouldn't exist.
subtly_artistic
No. No, I'm so glad that you exist, please exist. Exist really really well. Prove the Valar were stupid to break your necklace.
But what if they weren't? If you hadn't existed, they'd be right!
subtly_artistic
But here I am and I invented the necklace in the first place!
I don't want to be horrible. I don't want to die. I really don't want to die after I made the Valar mad, what if they don't put me back?
subtly_artistic
She decides not to exacerbate the situation by saying that they, um, didn't. You haven't done any of the things they showed me yet. You have time to do completely different things.
Maybe. But I wouldn't do those things, even if you hadn't told me, and I don't know why I did!!
subtly_artistic
I don't know either. They didn't tell me. But even if you had some sort of really good reason for some of them you can still do better because you don't need boats if you can fly and stuff like that.
Yeah.
I really don't want to die.
I really don't want to die.
subtly_artistic
Good. I don't want you to die either. I want you to live and write books and invent stuff and learn everything and explore everywhere. Snuggle.
I didn't do all the things I have to do today.
subtly_artistic
I can let you get back to it. We can figure out how to trade off the necklace in the morning.
Thank you.
subtly_artistic
You're welcome. And she kisses his forehead and hops off the roof.
She goes home and draws up a schedule.
She wears her watch to bed.
She goes home and draws up a schedule.
She wears her watch to bed.
Rúmil knocks on her door in the morning.
What's going on?
subtly_artistic
The Valar broke all the necklaces except mine. And showed me awful things about what Fëanáro's fated to do to explain why he couldn't have his unbroken too, but I have free will so I can probably fix it, I didn't have the nerve to ask them while they were all - Valary - at me why if they didn't like the look of fate they'd interrupt anything I was trying to do at all but they said they wouldn't break mine even if I shared it. So I loaned Fëanáro my necklace, we're going to have to work out how to share it around but I think I can do most of what I needed it for with aggressive scheduling without driving myself as spare as he would.
Hug?