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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
People are not going to criticize their crown prince of the recently recovered mother even anonymously.
He usually gets dinner at Bella's school of magic after his students have left, perching on the nearest piece of tall furniture. He is confused by the question.
subtly_artistic
"In schools back on my world there were surveys about how well the teachers were doing. Student evaluation forms. They were to help the teachers know where they weren't getting through to people effectively. They didn't always work, for various reasons; I think if I survey people you're teaching they won't tell you anything you might be doing wrong."
"I'm not doing anything wrong."
subtly_artistic
"I remember that you have sometimes been bothered by the prospect of someone telling you something whether it was true or not, even when you thought you did know the truth of the matter."
"Why wouldn't they tell me? Wouldn't you tell me?"
subtly_artistic
"I don't sit in on all your classes and I am not reading your students' minds, so I don't know all the things they might not know about how you're doing. They might not tell you because you're the prince or they're worried you might be fragile for family related reasons."
"You can read my students' minds. I can add it to the waivers."
"No Fëanáro you're a bad person and I can see the hints of the evil future Fëanáro."
"...no."
subtly_artistic
"Good, that would have been upsetting. What did you really think I'd say?"
"No."
subtly_artistic
"...No, that falls below my standard for consent on mind-reading and anyway doesn't address the underlying problem, if in fact you consider it a problem, plus it makes it all my job."
"It'd be a big problem if people thought I was incompetent and weren't telling me. But I can't make them tell me so I should just be super competent so they can't think that."
subtly_artistic
"Well, you can't make them tell you - and shouldn't try - but you can try to make sure you seem approachable, so if one of them is thinking about it they could feel like they could tell you."
"It's hard not to be approachable when you are three feet tall."
subtly_artistic
"I think that prevents you from being intimidating but not unapproachable."
"If I'm doing something wrong you should tell me what it is."
subtly_artistic
"I still don't sit on your classes and am still not reading your students' minds. My impression from what I have seen is that you're pretty good but kind of bossy, but I can't unpack for you how this is impacting your students because I'm not one of them, or reading their minds."
"If I wasn't kind of bossy they wouldn't take me seriously because I'm not even twelve yet."