subtly_artistic
Oh thank all the blasted gods.
Bella takes deep breaths...
...goes and gets breakfast...
...sets an hourglass and lets Valinor smooth away an hour of her morning so she can calm down...
...writes a lot...
...and then tentatively wanders palaceward to see how Fëanáro's coping, if he would like to display how he's coping at her.
Bella takes deep breaths...
...goes and gets breakfast...
...sets an hourglass and lets Valinor smooth away an hour of her morning so she can calm down...
...writes a lot...
...and then tentatively wanders palaceward to see how Fëanáro's coping, if he would like to display how he's coping at her.
subtly_artistic
It is really fucking awkward to have a small child aware that you knew his mom had sworn to kill him and you did not do very much about it for reasons he has professed not to understand. She waits to see what he's going to do.
subtly_artistic
"That's a very narrow definition of 'everything' you've got there."
subtly_artistic
What I wound having to do was extremely dangerous. I would have tried it sooner if it weren't for that. It seems to have worked out in practice but I was terrified some side effect I couldn't fix was going to happen and she'd have to live with it forever because I wasn't good enough. It could have happened. The previous solution had drawbacks but it was much safer.
subtly_artistic
It was safer for her mind not having something weird wrong with it.
subtly_artistic
Something could have gone really horribly wrong yesterday. I spent all day checking over and over and over, and because I'd never seen it done before I could only make my best guess about whether I was checking the right things, and it would have been a real disaster if I had made a mistake. People's minds are not toys.
subtly_artistic
If it hadn't worked and now she were so blocked that she couldn't be in a room with you, ever again, what kind of conversation would we be having now?