Video &/or Palantir - not locked because frantic mama is frantic (Forward Dated to post mission)

[marriedanidiot]

 Feanaro! Feanaro, I can't feel them, I can't feel them, our boys are gone! Feanaro, what's happen to Maitimo and Makalaure? Curvo? Atarinke, where are you?

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[so_dark_a_road]

I'm here. I can't feel them either!

[marriedanidiot]

Atarinke, oh my Atarinke, please take care of yourself. Where's your father?

forgot to say this is via palantir and Curufin went through the wormhole to Red Team's Planet One

[so_dark_a_road]

Don't worry, I will take care of myself the best I can! Father loaned me his palantir, and he's gone off to talk to someone. I'll give it back to him as soon as he comes back.

REVISION to stop Feanor possibly literally combusting THIS IS POST MISSION

[marriedanidiot]

Stay with him, please. I will come as swiftly as I may

[so_dark_a_road]

I will do my best to watch over him, and I'm sure he will watch over me. You're coming too? Be careful on the dive into the wormhole. Also, we're on Planet One.

I am so sorry about Maitimo and Makalaurë departing from the train. I've been worried about them since I arrived. They both seemed. . . very tired.

[Video]

[yilingdaddy]

[ Oh. This... ]

They're not here on the train that I can see.

[ And he looked in every place he could get, which is why his reply is delayed. ]

[Video]

[marriedanidiot]

Oh... [ She shudders, tears already falling ]

Oh my boys...thank you for looking.

video;

[irrationally]

[ Alice still isn't used to dealing with these modern devices, but she's making an effot here. Nerdanel was so kind to her when they first spoke after all, so she ought to at least try to return the favour. ]

.. what do you mean by gone? Are they no longer on the train?

video;

[marriedanidiot]

Oh, little Alice...

[ She visibly pulls herself together ]

Aye, I... can no longer sense them. They... must be gone, I think.

[irrationally]

I wouldn't question your senses. [ Mostly since she likes Nerdanel. She's going to question the hell out of anyone else's! ] But.. there is a chance that perhaps something may have affected them during the mission. There was a lot going on, after all.

[ Or maybe they're still spot on. But no matter how cynical Alice is, she doesn't want to completely give up all hope for the other so easily. ]

Have you already looked everywhere?

[marriedanidiot]

[ Nerdanel nods, limmed with tears ]

I would... have known. I knew it, when they died the first time. But this... there ... is an absence. Perhaps... folk speak of... of returning...

[irrationally]

[ Alice is still too new to realise how people leaving or disappearing here works, really. It all just seems bad to her.

And usually she wouldn't care. She hardly even knows anyone here on the train. But seeing Nerdanel like this hurts. ]

I.. [ She starts, then stops. Hesitates. She's so bad at this. ] I don't know if it would help at all, but would you mind some company right now?

[Video] Once Nita's back in her room...

[unfavorableinstigation]

A lot of people went missing over the course of the mission.

Has- do you think they'll appear on the platform?

[People going back to Sleep was common in Nautilus - not so much them coming back. And, from what she knows of Nerdanel's world, it's not necessarily a pleasant world her sons are going back to...]

[marriedanidiot]

I don't know. [ She breathes, trying to steady her shaking hands ]

I... oh Eru, I hope... I hope they're alright.

[unfavorableinstigation]

[Nita only knows them enough to say:] Me too.

But- even if we see them at the Platform, we'll see them again.

[marriedanidiot]

[ She smiles, very sadly ]

Only... if they return here. Else... [ It has been Three Ages of the world, and none of the sons of Feanor have walked from the Halls, and Elrond, on his return, came to see her only to apologise for not being able to bring Maglor with him ]

[unfavorableinstigation]

[Nita looks harrowed, then:]

Look- is it okay if I come find you and give you a hug?

It's- it's okay if you don't want one, though.

[tinkerheart]

I - I can't either. I looked everywhere. They... we were going back, they were there ... then they weren't.

[He's pale as a corpse. Long he feared something like this might happen. People vanished from the train many times already. Sometimes they came back.]

Maybe they'll come back...

[and other times they didn't...but hope is hard to kill if it's the only thing you have left...]

[marriedanidiot]

[ A sob ]

Oh... I hope... I pray they will. At the least... Feanaro, where are you? I... need you.

[tinkerheart]

I'm on my way, my love. I'm coming.

[He had not given up on search yet. Even if reason tells him there only so many places to look on the train. There might be many carriages but it's not endless...and he's actively shutting down the most worrying thought...they both can't feel them.]

[marriedanidiot]

[ She nods ]

I... I am in our cabin. I ... fetched Makalaure's harp...

[utulien_aure]

...What?

[At which point he reaches out with his own osanwe, trying to find Maedhros.

It should be easy, with them in such close proximity.

As after a few moments his jaw tightens and his fists clench, Nerdanel can probably guess how well that's going.]

[marriedanidiot]

Findekano? [ She wipes away a tear ]

Oh... oh my dear, I'm so sorry. Finno, do you need me?

[utulien_aure]

I feel as though I should be asking you that question.

[Shaking his head]

You need the others right now more than you do me. I'll come to see you later.

[marriedanidiot]

You love them too. [ She says gently ]

Come and see me later then, my dear.