He smiles. "All right – Keri can lend us her saddle, she's staying here to help with cleanup. Wait a minute?" He darts off, and comes back more like five minutes later with Yfandes, a bit sooty, saddled and ready to go. 

Up Bella gets.

Vanyel is quiet for the first half of the ride. 

"That was impressive," he says finally. "You've got good reflexes." 

Thanks!

"...Have you had to do things like this before?" 

No, there weren't really emergencies in Valinor or if there were they were 'Fëanáro is upset and doesn't know what to do with that because he's a little kid' and not 'things on fire'. And I didn't have any emergency response comparative advantage in Materia.

"Huh! You must just be naturally good at it then." Vanyel goes silent again and stays that way until they reach the courtyard between the House of Healing and the wing where Bella lives. "I'll, um, see you at lunch maybe, then?" 

See you!

She does indeed show to the picnic.

Shavri is waiting outside the dining hall with a large hamper. "Bella! Help me carry this?" 

The hamper feels lighter. Bella's not touching it.

Shavri takes a minute to catch on. “What- oh! Neat!” She starts hauling the hamper in the direction of the river. “Van’s running late but he’ll be joining us soon. How was your morning?”

I got a lot done in the sense of having done a lot of preliminary work I needed to do but not in the sense of having any measurable progress on the final product.

“Mmm. Er, is something particular blocking you on that?”

Uh, never having done a spell that does anything interplanar besides stuff that reaches elemental planes.

Shavri sets down the hamper, opens it, and gets out the item on top, a neatly folded sheet to sit on. “Right, it makes sense that not having any reference would be hard. Also, huh, do Arda or Materia have elemental planes too? They presumably wouldn’t be the same as our elemental planes but that’s interesting.”

It's possible some of them are the same, assuming you guys never physically travel there, but it's also possible there are just lots of elemental planes and we access different ones.

“Hmm. I don’t think it’s possible for us to travel there physically but Van might know more.” Shavri sits down on the picnic blanket and starts digging out food.

Bella sits down and helps her unpack.

Vanyel arrives a few minutes later and sits down with them. "How was your morning, Bella?"

Got a bunch done in spite of the exciting start! Yours?

"I got a lot of reading done, that was nice. I bet I'll be pretty tired when the coffee-thing wears off all the way but I feel all right now, so thank you." He stretches and sits. "It's a lovely day." It is, sunny and clear, the air just starting to feel crisp with a hint of autumn. 

It is! Valinor didn't really have weather.

"Really – no seasons or anything? That must've been weird. Did it rain ever?" 

No! They were waiting for everyone's houses to be built.

"That's...polite?" Shavri looks like she isn't sure how to react. "Um, did it cause problems with plant life, it not raining for...weren't you there twenty years?"