Come get you shining thingy...

[tinkerheart]

Who:Fëanor and Madoka
Where: Dining car
When: Egret 6
What: Chief Communication Officer Madoka gets a palantír


Fëanor one black orb to deliver it to left. And he had perfect candidate to have it. He just needed to find her first. The train has gotten big out of late so it wasn't the easiest of tasks but then some places he thought more probable than others.

It was too late for breakfast and still too early for dinner so the dinner card was almost empty. Save for one table occupied by a girl drawing on a piece of paper. The one he was looking for. Fëanor comes closer and sits on the opposite side.

"Hello, Madoka. What are drawing?"

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[happyends]

"Oh, mister Fëanor!"

At first Madoka seems so caught up in her drawing that she hasn't even noticed someone else entered the car, but when he's right in front of her and speaks up, the elf suddenly gets all of her attention. Cheerful attention too - apparently she's in a good mood, since Madoka easily smiles at him.

(Well, that, and the fact she also just generally likes Fëanor a lot sure helps.)

"It's nothing special. Naminé drew a cute kitten for me the other day, so now I'm trying to do the same thing!"

She moves the paper so he can look at it. It's filled with all sorts of cats. The drawing style is kind of childish and cartoony, but at least it's adorable.

[tinkerheart]

Fëanor examines the drawings. Childish they might be but he'd say someone here has an uncanny eye for detail. The cats might not be the most realistic masterpieces of art but they are unmistakenly cats caught in the most cat moments there are.

"I think you have succeeded. They are very expressive cats."

He takes out a black, shining orb.

"There is something you could really help me with."

[happyends]

His judgement seems to briefly surprise her, but then it just makes her soft smile, her cheeks the faintest shade of pink. Fëanor just seems like such a wise guy to her that she can't help but feel like his compliments are extra important.

But she doesn't have long to linger on that before he pulls out the orb - and more importantly, follows it up with those words.

"Me..?" Of all the people on the train? Madoka's eyes grow wide as she looks at him. What could she possibly help him with? Surprise aside, there's no real hesitation before she agrees. "Of course I don't mind helping you. What do I have to do?"

It probably has something to do with that orb, but obviously she has no idea what it is.

[tinkerheart]

"Soon we will be sent on another mission. On all the previous ones we didn't have a way to talk to between teams." To almost disastrous consequences. He'd like to avoid those.

"This," he says pushing the orb in her direction " is a palantír. It can relay a message from a person holding it to another palantír. Be it a spoken word or a thought." He takes out his own. "Like this one." He puts the second orb on the table.

"I made four; one for each team. I'd like you to have the one for Blue."

It's a responsibility and a duty but he's sure she can handle it. And he needs people he knows and trusts on that task. If only for the sole reason that affinity helps with stabilizing the connection.

[happyends]

Orbs that can relay messages.. That kind of sounds like magic, doesn't it? She doubts these things work on wifi, anyway. It makes Madoka stare at the orbs curiously, but it's the last part of what he says that makes her gaze snap back to the man instantly. If she was surprised a moment ago, then his specific request only makes her look even more shocked.

Madoka instinctively almost questions why her, but then realises that's probably rude. Sure, she may have rose-coloured glasses, but he doesn't seem like the type to her that'd make a decision like that without thinking about it. So.. "I.. I don't mean to question you, but.. are you sure I'm the best person for that?"

She thinks about everyone on the blue team. There's so many amazing people! She can't live up to any of them, so why her?

"I wouldn't want to let you down if someone else could be better, mister Fëanor.."

[tinkerheart]

Fëanor smiles. That's Madoka.

"But it can't be anyone else. Ignis will already be incredibly busy. I don't know the rest of the Blue team too well. Nor do they know me."

He can't give it just to anyone. With time he could teach anyone to use a palantír but time is exactly what they don't have. So it must be someone who already has a connection to the device maker. To him. Eh, how do you explain affinity to a 14-year old?

"If you close your eyes how well can you imagine how I look like?"

[happyends]

"How you look like..?"

In true childish fashion, rather than giving a direct answer to it, Madoka decides she must try it out in order to be able to give a truthful answer. No matter how odd the question seems to her, coming out of the blue like that.

So the girl closes her eyes for a moment, frowning slightly as she seems to think.

".. Um, I think I can do it pretty well..? You look really unique." She means it in a nice way, okay. Fëanor is just really pretty! It makes his appearance easy to remember.

[tinkerheart]

"See? That's exactly why it can only be you," Fëanor says with a smile. "It already answers to your will."

The mist swirling inside his orb changed color to blue. All the palantírí are connected to each other but each of them must also have a connection to its user. It seems there would be no problem with it for the Blue team.

"If you will say something to it now, I will hear it no matter how far I will be. As long as I have my own palantír with me."

[happyends]

She opens her eyes again when she hears him speak, only to see the blue inside of the orb. Madoka lets out a small gasp in half-surprise, half-amazement at the sight. Did she somehow do that..?

"That's amazing..!" Not just the colour changing, but also his explanation that follows it. She can't even imagine how he must have made something like this. As far as she's concerned, Fëanor is a total genius. "Then that means the teams can talk no matter how far apart we are, right..? In case there's danger or something like that..!"

[tinkerheart]

There is no doubt that Fëanor is indeed a genius. It's still nice to get an acknowledgment of that fact though.

"That's exactly what it means."

He holds his hand over his palantír. The mist inside clears showing a core of blue light pulsing in sync with the vibrations as the device repeats Madoka's words from just a moment ago. When he touches the orb's surface palantír goes dark again.

"That's how you use it. Would you like to try yourself?"

[happyends]

"Yes!" She nods. Although Madoka still seems amazed, there's also a hint of something more solemn in it. After all, she wants to make sure to treat this all very seriously if he's giving her something so important. "I should at least try it out before having to use it out there, after all."

In case she - for some reason - turns out unable to use it somehow. Because she's not good or special enough or something like that.

The girl puts her hand over the palantír he gave to her, just like he did a moment ago.

"So.. I do this? And then what?"