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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
She huffs. Do you know how to go back? We should get that sorted.
subtly_artistic
Um, I'm working on developing magic, but it will be much safer to summon evacuees here than to try to interact with my plane. It has objections to the concept of experimentation and will squash people who offend its sensibilities.
Ah! Well. Summoning people here sounds nice, too. I don't have much of a sense of here. I get dizzy when I walk too far.
It's just so much. I'd forgotten what seeing was like.
No, I could, but it was just the stars to see by, so you didn't rely on it as much and depth perception wasn't very important.
subtly_artistic
I don't see nearly as well as an Elda, myself. I go around in these glasses to filter out some of the treelight.
I could use a pair of those.
Would you? That'd be lovely. I don't understand how...things...work here, exactly.
subtly_artistic
I showed up, everything was really bright, I asked for tinted glasses, I had to explain what glass was, someone promptly reinvented it from my vague descriptions and shortly afterwards I had three pairs waiting for me where my house now stands.
...I'm not sure I understand that, either. But it's something. I'd met about thirty people in my entire life, you know, before.
subtly_artistic
Wow. Well, there are a lot more people than that around here.
I've been told. And a King. I have no idea what to make of a King.
And not likely to be bothered by anything I do? I'd feel odd, bothering a King - I feel like there are rules and I don't know any.
subtly_artistic
Um, he's busy, so people are circumspect about interrupting him, and if he tells people to do things he expects them to do them, that's the basic idea.
That's not too much.
I get a lot of that feeling there are rules I don't know.
I get a lot of that feeling there are rules I don't know.
subtly_artistic
Well, my world was even more different and I adjusted so I think you will too.
She smiles. Oh, I'm sure I will. I just can't decide how much adjusting I should try to do here and when I should just wander into the city and meet thousands of people and try to swim by leaping into a river.
subtly_artistic
That's up to you. I didn't have to get used to the concept of cities in particular so my experience won't be much guide there.
How long did it take you to get adjusted?
subtly_artistic
I was much more comfortable after a few weeks and quite settled by a month in.