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!

[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. ]

[marriedanidiot]

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

[Video]

[marriedanidiot]

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

Oh my boys...thank you for looking.

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.

[marriedanidiot]

Can you come back to the train, my Atarinke? I... would feel better if I could see you.

Oops, didn't see this is post-mission. Retconning as best as I can. XD

[so_dark_a_road]

I'll be back soon. Got to land this craft on the station first. [ Smile. Guess who's flying the thing? ] Then I'll hop out and come back to the train, and so will Father.

[ Sigh. ]

I wish my brothers could have stayed, or at least not left at such a bad time. But anytime would be a bad time, really. And they had no choice about it, I'm sure. I wish. . . I wish so many things.

<3

[marriedanidiot]

Thank you my dear. [ She sounds calm, poised. But her eyes are red and her hands tremble ]

I only... I hope they are well.

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[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?

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[so_dark_a_road]

[ Curufin cannot give her a hug, but his eyes radiate the deep and abiding love he has for her. ]

I, too, hope they are all right, wherever they are. I have known this to happen in the other two worlds I lived in before I came here. Sometimes people disappear. Sometimes they return. I know better than to get my hopes up, but the mere fact that such returns are possible strongly suggests to me that wherever people go when they vanish, they are all right.

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[marriedanidiot]

Oh, little Alice...

[ She visibly pulls herself together ]

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

[marriedanidiot]

That... does help, thank you, Atarinke. I only worry... they were not well, your brothers.

[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...]

[so_dark_a_road]

[ He nods, hoping that indeed, his attempts to help her with her grief were really helping. ]

I noticed that my brothers were not functioning at the peak of their powers. But you would have been far more aware of that even than I would. What did you perceive?

[marriedanidiot]

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

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

[marriedanidiot]

I... I don't know, my darling. But they seemed... so tired. They would not tell me...

[unfavorableinstigation]

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

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

[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?

[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...]

[so_dark_a_road]

They would not tell you what the cause of their fatigue was?

[ She would have known when Maedhros died and might have had some sense of how both had suffered in their Beleriand years, but she might not have known much of the terrible details of their stories. ]

[marriedanidiot]

[ She shakes her head ]

Not the details, no. Makalaure... his thinking was... disordered...

[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...

[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 ]