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Why don't you ask first? If you don't mind.

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I don't. I think I'll try Olórin unless you think I should go to Lórien?

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Olórin seems a safer bet.

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So she goes looking for Olórin.

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He is, as always, just out of sight.

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"Hi. I hear that some of the reembodied have fuzzy memories?"

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"They do," he says. "It may just be the long Ages since they were last alive, we aren't sure."

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"I was wondering if it would be okay for me to help, any of them who want it, with subtle arts?"

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"Absolutely. We appreciate your help, Bella."

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"Great! Thanks!"

And she rejoins Rúmil.
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Rúmil's friend says hello, softly, and shakes Bella's hand. Her skin is as soft as a baby's. "I don't quite have modern Quenya down," she says.

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Is this better? I talked to people like this all the time before I learned Quenya.

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Huh. Yes, it is. How does it work?

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I'm a subtle artist. On my plane some people are born with the potential to learn telepathic skills. Before I tripped and fell into Valinor I was going to be a professional therapist.

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Subtle artist is a nice word for it.

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It's called that because the subtle arts can't be detected by magic.

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Rúmil says that your plane is very different from ours, in some interesting ways and some terrible ones.

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That's a very good description. Did he say which things he had in mind for each category?

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He said that your world was as dangerous as - what I remember - but more civilized about it, sort of, and that there were more powers like the enemy who stalked us in the Outer Lands.

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Reasonable summary. There's some ideas they've invented that I brought here, like wheels and glass.

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I'm still getting used to the idea that that's not true here.

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It takes some getting used to. The Valar are still sort of learning how people work but they do seem clear on not hurting anyone.

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Well, they can have time to learn, she says, we're not short on that.

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Yep, which is nice. I had a really short life expectancy even if nothing unusually bad happened to me back on my plane, humans don't last very long.

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Really? That's awful, what happens?

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