"We reincarnated so far in the future that no one knows that the culture we died in ever existed and so far as we know reincarnation is completely unprecedented. No one's going to believe us if we tell them."

Nod, nod.

"And I was married but we don't remember our past lives all at once, it was in pieces, and I was desperately lonely and kissed a boy when I was thirteen and remembered I'm married partway through it and screamed and pushed him away from me and ran away."

"Sorry, uh, you started explaining after I said I was a therapist and I don't know if you want my therapist hat on or if you just want to talk."

"I would fucking love to talk to a therapist whose reaction to my life story is 'let's deal with the shit that happened to you' not 'let's try to make you believe that none of this is real and you've never actually been loved by anyone but your sister ever.'"

"Okay. So, Bar says this is an interplanar bar, I don't know what your world's therapists are like but in my world you have to be a subtle artist to go into the field, and me with my therapist hat on usually involves at least low-level affect and/or thought reading."

"I would really love to be in telepathic contact with someone again."

What's your depth tolerance on that?

We're from different worlds and never gonna see each other again, right? If you see something that makes you judge me just--don't bring it up.

I can do that.

Okay.

This is a medium-sized college town in Kilaiuossa, where she grew up and was fine for the first (fifty-three but the years are shorter there; she was in her early twenties by the current reckoning) years of her life.

This is how her parents died and she and her sister had to leave.

This is a weird snake-monster.

This is where the snake-monster dumped them.

You landed in Valinor?!

You didn't wonder why I cried harder when I saw your hair?

Nobody's figured my hairstyle for anything other than personal eccentricity in - in almost seven years -

What happened to you?

Here is the university Bella attended. Here is where she wandered into an interplanar studies classroom. Here is where she landed in the palace with a little Quendi boy staring at her -

- here are the Valar saying she's disruptive and ignoring her while she begs for her life -

I'm so sorry.

...Was that Feanaro?

Yeah. - We must have had, different Valinors or something, I don't think they can have smoothed over what happened while I was there that well, you can't have just shown up after - but you met yours?

I married his son.

He wanted ten kids.

He had seven.

With who?

Her name was Nerdanel, she was an absolutely brilliant sculptor.

Aw! Tiny Nerdanel in her father's workshop -

Aww.

Wistfulness: She didn't want ten children, probably, but she wanted any, and now that is never going to happen.