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This is the wrong building. She could have sworn the RA said "take a left at Emily, first on your right", and Bella did exactly that, and here she is and the rooms in this place don't even seem to be numbered, it's all letters and names. She's not going to find Intro to Subtle Therapy in Room 206 like that. Maybe the RA meant take a left after Emily, not before Emily? Maybe she was supposed to go the other way around the quad and approach Emily from the other direction? She's going to be late.
Bella tries to get out of the letter-named-rooms building to go ask Emily for directions, but that's not a stairwell after all, and there's someone shouting at her not to come in and she flinches back and clonks her elbow on the door and boots or no boots she's down and she -
- is falling -
subtly_artistic
Some people have asked the Valar to aid them in that. I do not know of a thing called tinted glasses.
Hmm. I have no idea how such things would be created. I'm sure it could be done in time. I'm not personally much use in a workshop, though. You could ask the Aulendil, if you're unwilling to ask Aulë?
People who, on arriving here, became devotees of Aulë, settled by his Halls, and are learning all he can teach them. They're doing much of the architecture and most of the jewelry, but they also seem the type to develop things like the one you showed me.
Down the hill, out of the city, past where they previously met Aulë, to an odd enclave where stone and metal grow out of the ground in the form of exquisite plants and trees and crystals and houses, all of them spacious and open. Rúmil knocks on the door of one.
A man with very long reddish hair opens it and immediately breaks into a broad smile. "Rúmil!"
"Mahtan!" he says. "How are the girls?"
"Cleverer than I'll ever be," he says, and nods at Bella. "Hello, miss. You are-?"
A man with very long reddish hair opens it and immediately breaks into a broad smile. "Rúmil!"
"Mahtan!" he says. "How are the girls?"
"Cleverer than I'll ever be," he says, and nods at Bella. "Hello, miss. You are-?"
subtly_artistic
Rumil thinks you might be able to make me tinted glasses to make it easier to operate outside in the brightness? Picture.
Fascinating. I'll certainly give it a try. Do you know anything about the materials that go into those?
subtly_artistic
The lenses are glass and the frame is some kind of metal but I don't know what the tinting is.
He looks delighted. We haven't tried that, but I certainly can! We could also use rocks that are not quite opaque, cut very thin. Come, let's get some sand and attempt it!
subtly_artistic
I've never actually watched glass being made, 'it's probably melted sand' is really all I know, she says, but she steps in anyway.
It's enough to start with, we'll try other things if melted sand doesn't achieve the desired effects. His workshop takes up almost the entire house, and there are bins filled with stones of all different kinds. He kindles a forge, starts working to heat it up, and points out everything to her and names them as he goes.
subtly_artistic
She doesn't exactly have another appointment, so she watches. It might have to be a certain color of sand or something to get clear glass; it comes in colors besides 'darkened'...
Sand is a very broad word for many different kinds of ground-down rock. I'd expect the composition matters, but I only have a few options on hand so we'll start with those. If that doesn't work I'll ask Aulë for a hint, and to explain how I should have been able to tell what would work. He shovels some sand into several different metal holders and places them into the fire.
subtly_artistic
I think the kind on beaches is at least the right general sort, that's what I was thinking of when I said sand.