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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
It can wait for the moment, though. Was there anything else you want to do today?
subtly_artistic
Haven't done a batch of experiments. Do you want to come along while I feed Olórin combinations of things?
Love to! He's adorable, isn't he?
So they head to Lórien. Rúmil tries talking trees into being different kinds of parchment while she works.
There are, to Olórin's continuing disappointment, no explosions.
What stage is next?
subtly_artistic
I look at all the results and try to figure out what they mean and creating more elaborate combinations a little less blindly.
And you think that's likely to get interesting results?
I know a number of other people who are interested in learning magic, Bella, Olórin says, if you have any desire to teach it.
subtly_artistic
There's not much to teach yet, but I could teach some people what I've got.
Aulë might invite you to host a talk for the Maiar and Eldar who work with him, if it's convenient.
subtly_artistic
Um. She thinks about that. I could probably put together a talk.
Lovely! It's not urgent; let him know in the next few years if it's something you'd be interested in doing.
I'm sure you could also give more than one talk, if there's enough to fill many of them.
subtly_artistic
I mean, what I could present now would be the scrolls for the spells I started with and the handful of interesting results, that's about it.
It's enough to learn magic from, I expect it'd be interesting. But your choice.
subtly_artistic
What would I do about the combat spells? I didn't teach them to Fëanáro but if the audience would all be adults...
They might have non-combat applications that we can think of! Especially for us, I doubt many of them would do anything to harm us and if we were involved in a fight with more fragile people we'd just put them very far away from each other.
subtly_artistic
Yeah, they do have some. Like freezing fruit, although eventually there'll be something better for that in particular. I can include them.