"Okay. Thanks."

She eats lunch. She checks her spellbook.

She can change into and out of her costume at will.

"Ugh.

"The new spell is for changing into costume at will," she tells Connor.

"Cool!"

"It's not like I don't see where it's coming from but I feel like it does not advance my long-term goals very much."

"You can do it in front of your parents!"

"I guess so? I was kind of planning to just teleport to their house with the costume on and without Alter Self up and take off the mask."

"I guess that'd work too. I dunno, people might think it's weird if you get new healing powers now once everyone knows what you've got anyway."

"I guess so? It's not like I'd lose the ability to cast mass heal."

"Yeah. But if you can't use them anyway it doesn't matter that much that it's being slow to give you what you want?"

"I guess not.

"You think I should take it? If I skip it I might get a different one tonight."

"I dunno. They all sound okay to me but I guess if you're not getting what you want, skipping might help."

"I guess there might ever be situations where it could be useful? And I guess we're not in a terrible rush."

She takes the spell.

She spends another five hours healing people.

She comes back to her demiplane, considers going over to all of the elves to ask them what she should do about contacting the Valar, and decides to instead interrupt one of the elf copies of Connor's dad.

"Hey. If I wanted to talk to your, uh, Valar, how would I do that?"

"Uh, Manwe and Varda live on Taniquetil and you can drop in when you want them for something. I guess you'd have to move everyone there so time starts."

"Yeah, I figure I'd have to warn everybody first and then probably temporarily move them somewhere where they can hang out for a few hours while I do it. Uh. Are there things I should do first? Or people I should talk to? I'm not really, like, clear on the protocols for dealing with... other people's gods."

"Well, what do you need from them?"

"Immortality, direction in terms of, like, if there's any ability I need to be gaining right now to help other people help the enslaved humans, or something that would be useful to have done while time is stopped, and, uh, I guess the ability to not have babies by accident. Would be good."

Nod. "Just for you or for all the humans here?"

"I should probably ask for everybody? Maybe ask the humans first and then take the people who are interested. Assuming it helps for the people not to be on another plane."

"I don't know what they'll do exactly but one imagines it'll make it easier."

"Okay.

"They won't, like, be annoyed?"

"No! Helping people is their job."

"All right then. ...lots of people with much worse problems than me but I guess if I die I can't fix them."

"Your problems seem pretty bad to me!"

"Really?"