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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's still up and working. "I'm ahead on today's things. Are you okay?"
subtly_artistic
"I'm fine. It doesn't matter when I'm asleep, I don't think it affects anything when I'm dreaming, timing's weird in dreams anyway. How much do you think you need it besides when I'm asleep?"
"I was mostly doing things. I was just really freaked out." He looks miserable. "I want to make a new one. Why doesn't it work anymore? We did it right!"
"Could they just cancel all of magic if they wanted to?"
"Let's not scare them into doing that. That would be really sad."
subtly_artistic
"Yeah. I know they don't want generalized teleportation, some parts of Valinor are inconvenient to get to on purpose; I don't know what else they wouldn't like."
"When did they tell you that?"
subtly_artistic
"Back when I got my leaf. It's point to point because they didn't want me to just be able to teleport all over the place."
"Oh.
The whole point of taking us to Valinor was that we didn't have to stay weak and small. If it's designed around our weakness and smallness, it isn't going to work."
The whole point of taking us to Valinor was that we didn't have to stay weak and small. If it's designed around our weakness and smallness, it isn't going to work."
"They should wear necklaces so they learn faster!"
He goes back to his work. "You can have it while I'm working, I don't think I lose time then."
subtly_artistic
"Okay." She retrieves it - by teekay since she's not sure she can otherwise avoid hair-touching and she doesn't want to get into incorrect habits - and sits down by him and does her own work.
The King is Concerned about Fëanáro, and pulls her aside this afternoon to make this known.
"He lost it, a few days ago, when his necklace broke. He's been shouting at anyone who interrupts him, slamming his head into the wall when he's frustrated...Miriel asked him about the mechanical loom, because he was obsessing over projects, and he told her she wasn't fast enough to matter."
subtly_artistic
"- I didn't know it had gotten that bad. Um, mine still works, the Valar only broke the other ones, and I'm going to loan it to him off and on, which should help him feel better. I can talk to him about the loom and, uh, advise him against slamming his head into walls."
"We have given him that advice, yes."
"I appreciate that. What is their concern with it?"
subtly_artistic
"They think if they get popular everyone will need one even if they don't want one just to keep up."
"Ah. That - well might be, but destroying them caused him so much distress..."