"You think so? That's good."

"Sometimes - not commonly, obviously -  people become gods. The existing gods seem to largely not mind this."

"Yeah, they can do that where I'm from too, that doesn't mean trying is a good idea."

"Oh, yeah, I would settle down and sell all that stuff and become fabulously wealthy, it's safer than trying that nonsense. But I've never seen the gods get threatened by things that aren't trying to destroy the world."

"I don't think they felt personally threatened. I just kept - perturbing Valinor. They want it paradise-y in a very particular way that includes the making-people-patient effect and I was messing that up."

Nod. 

"I was even following all their actual instructions on that - when they broke my anti-time-slide necklaces I didn't try, like, making a new version they hadn't broken yet, or anything, and they didn't want me handing out teleportation casually because they were concerned about ecological effects in places that were designed to be hard to get to so I didn't - they just - jumped to banishing me suddenly anyway -"

"Not a lawful place," he says a little knowingly.

"Yeah, I guess you could say that. I told them I'd go quietly to the other continent but they thought Fëanáro would just chase me there - he's going to do that anyway -"

"Yes, he will."

"I'll be able to finagle the earwire first, I think."

"Maybe you can explain what you're doing as you do it?"

"Sure, you can watch me put the intraplanar version on this," she pulls off her left earcuff, "and then we can backtrack for anything that didn't make sense."

Bounce bounce.

This takes her about ten minutes and no material components but she does say words.

"I didn't follow most of that," he says when she's done. "What are the - building blocks you're using -"

"I can draw it out as a scroll but it'll take me way longer than casting the spell did." She gets underway on scrollifying it.

That he recognizes.

"Ta-da! This is the kind that draws user mana -" She pokes a section. "This bit I can change to make it time per day though, it depends if you're going to pass it around."

"It's generally regarded as pretty dangerous to experiment like that but I think not because the universe will be mad but because if you did it slightly wrong the spell explodes - how did you know which bit to change -"

"I stood near Olórin - the helpful minor deity - and left things out of spells I knew, or swapped them with each other or added them in from other spells, to see what happened. My first arguably useful result was an arcane mark with an increased character limit. The experiments that seemed especially risky I got Olórin to do for me. He was hoping something would explode, he likes explosions."

" - huh." He's smiling.

"It was so fun!"

"It sounds it!"

"I have a pretty good feel for most of the moving parts now but I'd still be nervous about doing stuff with combat spells."