I did! They're amazing.

She's a lot like him, similar sort of - energy.

Energy?

She's interested in different things but she's interested in them in almost the same way.

I wish I could have met her.

Well, maybe you can meet mine, and maybe we can get yours out of Mandos.

True! We are getting people out of Mandos.

And Bella is if she does say so herself a way better therapist than Mandos. What kind of classes are you in?

Mostly the same kinds as Daphne. I'm less into biology for its own sake than she is, but it seemed like the best avenue to figuring out how to beat old age.

Well, have fun. When you're done I should have some scrolls.

I look forward to it!

And Bella goes back to the room and inks out prestidigitation and a few more besides. Circa lunchtime: Should I meet you at the cafeteria for lunch?

Sure, I'll teach you appliances at dinnertime.

Cafeteria! Longbread sandwiches! Bella attempts to sound out the labels on the food.

She is mostly successful and Idaia corrects her when she isn't.

Hooray.

And then back to scrolls! She has to cast a couple of things to make sure she remembers them well enough to scroll them.

What do you recommend to start with?

Your choice of a sound illusion, a light illusion, or the one that does minor teekay and cleans stuff and so on. Or the arcane mark if you already have a glyph you want to use for it.

Ooh, no, not yet. What are the necessary characteristics for such a glyph?

I invented a longer version but the basic one that I scrolled it can't be more than six characters. They can be very fancy characters, though, I have an ambigram of 'Bella' in the Draconic alphabet. She displays a notebook thus marked as of a few hours ago.

Nice. Okay, I'm going to have to put some thought into this. I'm going to go with teekay-slash-cleaning, I think, I can already do illusions. Not that I think those'll be redundant, if they let me illuse stuff that I never dreamed, but it still lowers their priority.

The light one is probably not useful to you because you have probably ever dreamed about light, although I don't know how much control you have over the details of your constructs. The sound one might be useful, you can control the illusion however you like as long as it isn't too loud, and it's time-limited in a way that means it can be a good gauge of your general progress. Here's Prestidigitation, I'll walk you through how to read it -

Prestidigitation ensues.

Prestidigitation! I can actually do this really trippy not-quite-synaesthetic light thing, wanna see?

Ooh, sure!

She cups a hand, and light bursts from a point above it. It's mostly white, but streaked with ultraviolet, which Bella can somehow see despite using only human eyes for the purpose. If she's ever borrowed an Elf's eyes to look at a Mingling she may recognize it.