I sleep plenty, it's important when your magic is dream-based. How do you do it?

You develop a really strong habit of checking things that dreams don't do reliably - like text, or checking clocks - to the point where you also check them when you're dreaming, and then if you notice a discrepancy asleep you can notice you can pivot into lucidity from there, although sometimes at first you just wake up instead.

I usually wake up when I notice I'm dreaming, she agrees. It's happened a few times.

Takes practice. If this seems like a really high-return possibility I can put people to sleep by subtle arts.

Being able to control my dreams would be pretty big, yeah. If I could have done that in Valinor we wouldn't have needed to steal the ships because I could have made them after looking hard enough. I mean, maintaining them the whole way across would have been tricky, but not impossible.

Yeah, mine won't have to steal boats either, he can just teleport. I might be able to teach you wizardry, the Quendi learned it fine and some Maiar.

That would be really great.

...I might need a bit to decompress from how long I spent in my world before I'm any good to you there but I'll manage.

Don't worry about it.

Oh, hey, if you've only ever met Feanaro as a kid you've never heard Macalaure sing! I should fix that!

Who's that?

His second-eldest son and the best singer ever.

I'd love to hear.

She grins, and the sound of music fills the room.

Bella grins and squirms with happiness. I miss Quendi singing so much but he's really head and shoulders above 'random passerby singing to themselves'.

I know, right?

Are your Valar still - Valaring around, because they can block wizardry when they want to -

I have no idea. Not so that anyone would have a clue what you were talking about if you mentioned them, but they might be a complication in, like, rescuing people from Mandos.

Yeah. I don't know if it's even conceptually possible for a wizard spell to beat a Vala if the Vala's not cooperating.

I mean, my plan was not so much direct confrontation as in, grab souls, out before he notices, reembody on Earth.

Earth?

Modern name for Arda, or at least the parts of it that aren't Valinor.

Oh. Well, that might work.

Hopefully, yeah.

I don't think we introduced ourselves. I'm Bella.

Idaia. Idaia Zavari Lessnerai.