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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
They aren't done at the end of the day, but they've made lots of progress.
subtly_artistic
And she can double-count all the writing she did do as teekay practice. "I'm going home," she says. "I'll see you tomorrow." And she slips her hand out of the necklace loop.
"Bye." He doesn't stop working.
subtly_artistic
She goes home.
She doesn't go to the palace first thing in the morning; she wants to get notes-from-her-plane written up and Fëanáro has a tendency to distract her. She shows up after lunch, having written what she thinks is probably a reasonable number of pages for the number of hours put in.
She doesn't go to the palace first thing in the morning; she wants to get notes-from-her-plane written up and Fëanáro has a tendency to distract her. She shows up after lunch, having written what she thinks is probably a reasonable number of pages for the number of hours put in.
He is rubbing his eyes furiously while he works. "Think I might have something, didn't want to sleep until you came- didn't want to waste it -" and he hands her the necklace.
"If we were both sleeping then no one's using the necklace!"
He relaxes. "Gonna sleep now. So I can test it later."
subtly_artistic
"The water blast?" she asks, wending towards his room in case he would care to be tucked in.
"Yes."
He does. He doesn't need any help falling asleep though.
subtly_artistic
Yeah, didn't look like it. Okay, if he has the water blast handled the rest of her day is going to working on message spells that don't depend on managing to get a crystal ball to the Outer Lands.
No one interrupts her; Fëanáro doesn't usually sleep through the whole day or whole night but he hasn't slept in a long time.
subtly_artistic
Oops. (She rearranges her schedule. The next day she is there right after breakfast.)
And he tests his water spell! It is very dramatic and unpleasant directly to the face but not forceful enough to actually hurt you, and it looks very very dramatic. He goes outside racing though Tirion to test it, and scours cobblestones and is generally happy.
subtly_artistic
That's good!
...Maybe when he's done playing with it she can ask if he apologized to his mother yet.
...Maybe when he's done playing with it she can ask if he apologized to his mother yet.
He hasn't. Seemed scary, and what if she hates him.
subtly_artistic
Bella is pretty sure she doesn't hate him and that apologizing will not make it more likely. And the last time he didn't want to apologize it was because the thing he said was true and this time he doesn't have that excuse.
Okay.
He looks really miserable about it, though.
He looks really miserable about it, though.
"Admitting I'm bad is so awful, it feels like admitting I shouldn't exist. Even if it's just a little thing."
subtly_artistic
"You don't have to go say, 'I'm bad', or even, 'I was bad'. Just, 'that thing I said, it wasn't true, I just said it because I was upset, and I'm sorry'. Maybe throw in the mechanical loom if you maybe want to figure out how to do that but it's not essential."
"That would be pretty cool. It'd mean embroidery projects went faster."