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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
"What do I look like, grown up? Like my father?"
He smiles. And he goes back to the palace. "You can't come while I apologize to my mother," he says, "because she's horrible and won't even be able to think about me if you're in the room."
subtly_artistic
"The reason she can't think about things while I'm in the room is not that." Bella shakes her head and goes looking for Rúmil.
He is still in Lórien.
subtly_artistic
Well, she can go to Lórien. She has a leaf. She can visit Olórin while she's there maybe.
Rúmil is with the recently reembodied but Olórin is delighted to see her.
"I terribly regretted missing it. Someone relayed it to me afterwards. We have been busy in Lórien."
subtly_artistic
"Well, as long as you got the content. ...The necklaces don't work except one anymore though."
"That I was informed of. How are you doing?"
subtly_artistic
"I'm holding up better than Fëanáro. He's okay sharing mine, though." She's spent what is still most of her life not expecting better from gods.
"He is going to be a talented and productive young man."
He looks troubled. "What brings you here?"
subtly_artistic
"Oh, I thought I'd see if Rúmil were free and visit you as long as I was by even though he's busy."
"I expect he'll be around in a little while, they usually don't visit for very long. Research proceeding apace?"
subtly_artistic
"Well. Sort of apace. I'm not sure how to predict if the Valar are going to break my stuff again. But yeah."
"That's a good point," he says, "it would have been much wiser and more just to warn you that this had repercussions they feared as far in advance as they could, and outline specifically what would alarm them. I think you move too fast for that to work well, but still. We should improve on that."
subtly_artistic
"I already know they don't want people teleporting around willy-nilly. What else should I worry about?"
"Magic for killing people, particularly if you're teaching it to Fëanáro. I trust the Valar at least told you everything we know of that."
subtly_artistic
"It seemed - patchy. I don't know if you get it patchy in the first place or if they were filtering, I didn't ask."
"We get it patchy. Each of us gets it differently patchy, you can't know your own fate to a level of detail that would cause you to act in a way that would make it not your fate."
subtly_artistic
"They didn't tell me not to tell Fëanáro about what they showed me."
"Fate does not bind you. If telling Fëanáro helps it not happen, good."