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[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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[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...

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[tinkerheart]

[Barely a moment later the door open and Fëanor storms in.]

Nerdanel.

[He pulls her into embrace, tries to smile even if despair looms over both of them like a dark cloud...They do come back.]

He wouldn't have left his harp if... he wasn't planning to come back?

[A false hope it may be but it's the only one he has.]

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[marriedanidiot]

[ She all but collapses into his arms, weeping - she has lost them all once before, and this is almost too much to bear ]

I hope so. [ She whispers, clinging to his strength and solidity ]

Beloved, I... don't know how I can bare to farewell you again.

[tinkerheart]

Neither I to you.

[Not anymore. Not again. Not if there is even a smallest of chances he can prevent this.]

I won't let anyone pull me away from you. Nor you from me.

[It might be an empty promise. He knows that well enough. Each and every disappearence was equally surprising. There was no warning. And yet he will try. He has to. To admit he might be powerless, he might not be able to prevent t even for himself, it would be as admitting defeat. That he will never do.]

[marriedanidiot]

[ Both of them know there is no promise that they can make that the train cannot make them break, but Nerdanel nods - she's as strong as stone, as steady as the earth. But even stone can break, even earth can crumble. She clings to Feanor and his strength now, needing the warmth of his fire ]

I love you, beloved. My Feanaro. I've missed you, so much.

[tinkerheart]

And I missed you.

[There. He said it. The pain that was tearing him apart adding to the grief, fueling his madness. He should have seen it for what it was. He should have recognized. But he didn't. That's not a mistake he'd allow himself to repeat ever again.]

My love. My light. My star.

[With her in his arms he cares not for all the wonders of all the worlds combined. With her at his side, wise, and strong, and beautiful as she's always been, he can do anything. Without her, he'd be lost again.]

Only you make me feel whole again.

[marriedanidiot]

[ In his arms she can breathe again, resting against his fire the cold of loss is buffeted, soothed, warmed ]

My joy, my strength, my heart.

[ She kisses him ]

As you do for me, also.