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.

Isabella Mariel Swan, Bella elaborates.

That is a surprisingly Earth-normal name. Zavari isn't a middle name, in Kilaiuossa you get two surnames, one from each parent, I hyphenate 'em now.

Huh. I wonder why. Maybe Pax has a lot of the same phonemes as whatever you speak there. - We're going to have to talk in Quenya or by subtle arts until I pick up the language.

Conveniently, I speak Quenya!

Mine's rusty but it'll do!

"I'll definitely speak Quenya to you, then," she says in same. "It's a beautiful language and it would be a shame to lose it."

"Well, Quendi designed it," says Bella, likewise. "So of course."

"My sister was so thrilled by Tirion," she says wistfully. "She loves beautiful things, she was so happy living among Quendi."

"Does dreamshaping let you fly, did you ever get to see it from the air?"

"Theoretically, but I never dreamed the right things. And then we sorta got exiled."

"From Tirion?"

"Yeah. Built a new city, called it Formenos, it was beautiful too. We--Tyelcormo and I--we had a house there."

"How'd you get exiled?"