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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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And this is much appreciated!
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This is also when it occurs to Bella that she didn't tell Fëanáro the thing about how according to Olórin his script lasts a long time. When she's healed everybody she heads palaceward intending to mention that.
She finds him and Miriel in a spacious room she hasn't seen before - because Miriel frequented it - in the center of the palace. Miriel is weaving one of her tapestries that could be alive, and Fëanáro is working in clay again.
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Bella plops down but waits to be addressed; it can be hard to tell if he is in a talking-and-clay mood or an introversion-and-clay mood.
"Hi Bella. I am, it turns out, too impatient for embroidery but my mother says that once I get fast at it it will not take my attention and not make me feel impatient but I am too impatient to even get that good."
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"That sounds inconvenient," Bella says. "It might be easier sans necklace, if you had your heart set on it."
He shudders. "I like the necklace. Amil thinks it's great too."
"It's familiar, for 'Mother'," Miriel says. "Fëanáro, did you never -"
"I speak Pax with Bella a lot," he says to his clay.
"I speak Pax with Bella a lot," he says to his clay.
"What's Pax for 'mom'?" says Miriel.
Fëanáro doesn't answer.
Fëanáro doesn't answer.
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...Bella tells her. "But I call my parents by name when they're not listening."
She nods agreeably. "It must have been quite an adjustment, arriving here with no one who spoke the language."
"Valinor is very unlucky not to have any others."
Her hands are moving very quickly as they speak. "Fëanáro's told me of some of your projects, Bella."
"He makes it sound like you do enough for a whole guild."
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"Well, I didn't for the first Year I was here so I'm trying to catch up."
"What's your primary interest at the moment?"
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"I'm working on the principles that crystal balls and long-distance messaging spells will share, and then I'll shelve crystal balls to finish up the messaging spells so people can talk to their loved ones back in the Outer Lands, and then: crystal balls."
"That's lovely. I wonder what we'll do if lots of them have decided they want to come here; learn how to go and get them?"
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"I guess, if the Valar don't want to make another trip. They've stated an objection to teleportation within Valinor but something that called a target to a place would probably not have the stated problem? I'll ask Olórin about that."