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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 -
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subtly_artistic
So it was a good use of his time to come watch me instead of doing important things.
subtly_artistic
The point isn't - or at least shouldn't be - to entertain him. And he's the one who decided to come on a labeling expedition. If he's bored that's his problem.
But then he won't want to spend time with me again.
subtly_artistic
And would that be such a bad thing if Fëanáro spends the whole time twitchy -
She doesn't say that. You're not a performer, you're his son. Why do you think he expects you to be perpetually fascinating to him to the point where if you slip that's it?
She doesn't say that. You're not a performer, you're his son. Why do you think he expects you to be perpetually fascinating to him to the point where if you slip that's it?
He has so many important priorities. I want to be important enough to earn being worth his time instead of just being born into it and having it no matter how worthless I am.
The labels are swift and beautiful and Fëanáro is very enthusiastic about explaining the tengwar to people.
subtly_artistic
And Bella can handle some spillover if Fëanáro's too crowded to approach. Anybody want a name tag?
Everyone wants name tags! People consider changing their names if they are not sufficiently pretty!
subtly_artistic
Gosh. Well, she writes out name tags and everything comes out pretty in tengwar.
Fëanáro is relaxing more and more as he gets the chance to teach people the alphabet, and as he's surrounded with label requests. He does not make any mistakes.
subtly_artistic
Bella keeps half an eye on him anyway, but doesn't interrupt with more questions about his equilibrium.
Eventually if this keeps up they're going to be out of sticky notes.
Eventually if this keeps up they're going to be out of sticky notes.
This keeps up. Fëanáro assures everyone, in Quenya which she now catches quite a few words of, that they'll go get some more.
Now! Oh, this is good, everyone's going to know how to read soon!
The lights change, which the Noldor do not take as a cue to move on from the day's activities, and Fëanáro tirelessly continues making sticky notes.
subtly_artistic
I'm going to go sleep, she announces, after she catches herself yawning. See you later.
Fëanáro does not even acknowledge this, lost in labelling.
It's easy to find them in the morning, because there's still a big crowd. Fëanáro is snuggled drowsily in his father's arms, still labelling things.
By now most objects in King's Square have labels. People are dipping the edges of the sticky notes in gold, or pressing them in glass.
subtly_artistic
Bella is not sure why they are doing that, but okay. Wow, glass caught on fast.
It did! No one's figured out how to get it stable enough for windows, yet, but for small trinkets it's everywhere.