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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
"Maybe eventually scary things will stop happening and I will be powerful enough that when they do I can just go fix them."
subtly_artistic
"If you're too upset to write when this happens it does not sound like you find yourself in a very problem solving mood."
"I think if anything helped I could focus on that."
subtly_artistic
"Okay. What about the part where you were yelling at people?"
"Because they wouldn't leave me alone or stop grabbing me."
"To stop me hitting my head."
subtly_artistic
"A lot of people find that if they pretend to be calm for a while they actually wind up that way. They may have thought that if they stopped you eventually you would feel better without having to hurt yourself first."
"I think if I pretended to be calm when I wasn't then I'd just explode as soon as I could."
subtly_artistic
"It's common, not universal," she agrees. "But if it looks to people like you haven't tried it they might try to insist you try it anyway just in case."
"Could I try it once and then tell them it doesn't work for me?"
subtly_artistic
"Maybe. Although you might have to tell them so levelly enough that they aren't actively trying to restrain you at the time because otherwise it'd look like you were making it up so they'd let you go."
"When I'm grown up I can just order people not to touch me or interfere with me."
subtly_artistic
"Really, I think unless you're hurting somebody people shouldn't touch you if you tell them not to anyway, but yeah, it'll probably stick better when you're grown up."
"But that's going to take such a long time."
He smiles. "Yes. I can't think why the Valar'd disable that."
subtly_artistic
"They are worried about your relationship with your parents, so you probably shouldn't overdo it, but I really hope they don't have a vested interest in you being constantly handleable."
He twitches. "I'll be better to my parents. If it means they don't break magic."
subtly_artistic
"I... wouldn't have put it that way, but... Apparently you didn't like the idea of inventing a mechanical loom?"
"The idea is cool. I just feel like my mom tries too hard and it's hard to be around her and what if she hates me?"
subtly_artistic
"Why didn't you say that, instead of that she wasn't fast enough?"
"I was really freaked out about the necklace and scared about everything being too slow."
subtly_artistic
"Was it even true? I haven't found people on Valinor time to be too slow while actively working on something, it's mostly just in between, lingering over lunch and going on long walks and putting things off till next week and stuff."
"No, it wasn't true. I was just scared and being mean."