"You shouldn't take any recurring Mindhealing patients, then, but I've got a pile of people who're probably going to be one-offs given our, er, personnel shortage, if you're up for helping with that." 

"Can do!"

"Did you end up doing some sightseeing in wherever it was you landed by accident, then?" 

"Uh. No. Uh, so, funny story, actually, it turns out there's an entire other Velgarth and an entire other Arda, and they're both - later? Plus they're undisturbed by me. The Arda's later by more than the Velgarth which is just a few years along. And in that time the Valar pardoned their imprisoned torture-happy counterpart and guess what he went right back to doing, but I recognized the aesthetic and got right out of there with the nearest prisoner."

"What? Oh no. That's not actually funny at all, sorry, I do know what you meant..." Melody lifts a hand to tug at her collar, then rubs her eyes. "Goodness. I hope you told the Valar in your Arda to definitely never do that. Anyway, where were you for the last day, then? Would've thought you'd come back here." 

"I told my friends to tell the Valar. They're awaiting an audience, which might take a while but probably won't take long enough for Melkor to be pardoned in the meanwhile. I brought the rescued prisoner up to Leareth's place."

Melody looks kind of confused about this decision, but doesn't ask. 

"Maybe at some point it will make sense for you to talk to yourself!"

"Huh! What an odd thought. Oh, I didn't quite follow, where does the other Velgarth come into this? Did the me from that Velgarth end up in the horrible Arda somehow?" 

"I don't know what the you is up to but the other Velgarth is in contact with the other Arda."

"Noted. This is extremely weird but I guess it's not that much weirder than the amount of accidental bouncing around between worlds you've already experienced. I'm really glad you made it back safe." 

"Thanks." Sigh.

"We've got a backlog of patients if you want to get started now," Aber says cheerfully.

"Aber, quit harassing her, it'd be very reasonable of her to want the rest of the morning to unpack." 

"I actually left a bunch of my stuff at Leareth's, I was going to ask Sayshen to grab it and bring it with her when I get her here. I can see people after I talk to her."

"Sure, sounds good." 

So Bella calls Sayshen and asks if she can get someone to bag her things and then she'll bring her to Haven, and when that's squared away she can go back to seeing patients almost like she never left.

Haven is a much nicer place to hang out, even if Leareth was very accommodating about making a space comfortable for her; by the time they get back, there'll be an entire basement space that's comfy for Companions to stretch their legs in, and some sort of setup other than a Gate that could get her to the surface. 

Gemma, when she arrives for the night shift, is delighted to see Bella, and doesn't even think to ask about why she's back. 

So Bella heals people and brings Sayshen over and unpacks into her old room and gets her research done.

The other Vanyel, at their check-in the next morning, is somewhat warmer with her. He doesn't want to share too many details over the earcuff in case it can be detected by Melkor, but he pretty much believes her now, absurd and weird as her story is. Leareth ended up in Arda at a convenient moment too, so maybe the multiverse is just the sort of place where that happens sometimes. Also his other self thinks Bella is great. 

He doesn't see any obvious way to use her magic yet, it's not that combat oriented, but maybe the two Fëanáros will see something when they inevitably spend an entire day talking about magic and languages. 

I'd be really surprised if Melkor could detect this but I guess it'd be silly to rule it out unnecessarily.

:I would also be really surprised! But we were really surprised he was able to grab Leareth, so, we're being very paranoid: 

Makes sense. I can check in once a day in case anything comes up and otherwise I guess we're waiting for the Fëanáros.

:Sounds good. Thank you: