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Who: Madoka, her new kitty (Maru/Sleepy Ash) and you!
When: Day 2 of Fiddlesticks
Where: Everywhere on the train
What: Madoka is very excited about her new cat. And also likely making very bad life decisions for herself here by making a contract with a vampire.
Warnings: Likely mentions of vampirism.

(note: threads will mostly be between madoka and your character, maru might randomly jump in to pipe up on some threads, you'll know if/when it happens!)

( a: dining carriage )

If you've seen Madoka going anywhere on the train since yesterday, you may have noticed something new about her. Namely the fact that she's dragging a tiny black cat with her everywhere she goes.

Right now she can be found with it in the dining carriage, where she's seated at the table not to eat, but to instead draw in her notebook. She keeps sneaking glances over at the cat as it's sleeping on the table next to her notebook though, and after a while Madoka can't take it and giggles as she gently boops his face with the not-sharp end of her pencil.

"So cute.. Who's the most adorable kitty around? It really is you..!" She's staring at the cat with so much endearment in her eyes, but that's the exact moment where she looks up and only then seems to notice you being there too. Madoka's face immediately grows pink with a blush.

"A--Ah, I'm sorry!" Because apparently she feels the need to apologize for gushing over her cat publically..

( b: near the on board shop )

Or you may spot Madoka near the on board train shop. Apparently she's been using it, since the girl's arms are loaded with way too many chips for one tiny teenage girl to eat. There's six different bags in her arms, and the tiny black cat is precariously balanced on top of her head. It seems to be going well.. until one of the bags of chips slips out of her hands, falling onto the ground.

"Ah..!"

The girl is trying to pick it up, but it's a difficult process with her arms this full and her not wanting to disturb the sleeping cat on top of her head.. Someone please help the poor girl instead of watching her attempt to bend down and pick it up only to fail.

( c: anywhere in the train! open to madoka's close cr! )
(if you're wondering if you're close cr, then the answer is probably yes.. but feel free to check with me on plurk or discord!)

After a while she figures though that she should probably at least tell some people about the true nature of her kitty. It's going to be really awkward if someone sees him transform and freaks out about it in the middle of battle.. So while carrying the cat in her arms, Madoka makes her way through the train to try and look for people she's close to.

When she finds one of them, she'll offer a small smile and say: "Um.. Sorry, but do you maybe have a moment for me..?"

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Maru.... could have just shifted and saved everyone a world of issues. But instead he was handed over to the Shiny Guy with the urging to be 'good'. He tipped his head back to look over at Madoka with as much of a hurt expression on his face as a kitty could muster.

"I am being good..." And then he pouted. But he didn't fight being in the man's hands. He honestly wasn't too bothered by it at all.

"Of course you are," Glorfindel assured him. He held Maru gently against his chest with one hand, his other coming up to provide more ear scritches.

All ready, he looked at Madoka expectantly.

Maru.. don't give her that look, you'll break her heart! Madoka instantly looks guilty, no matter how glad she is that her kitty is getting nice ear scritches while Glorfindel is holding him.

"Y.. You are good, I'm just.. um, I'm saying, p-please keep it up!"

For a moment she's entirely distracted, but then she realises that people are waiting for her. Or rather, Glorfindel is waiting for her. It's the first time she's trying to summon the weapon again after the initial time she got it, so Madoka sucks in a deep breath in anticipation. She holds out a hand in front of her, and a second later a bow appears in her hands - though its colour is a shadowy black-blue. When Madoka realises it really did appear again, she smiles.

"Look, sir! This is the bow!"

He liked more ear scratches and he leaned into the petting fingers with a happy little purr. Yep, his ears were definitely his weak spot. His eyes had closed and he was just enjoying himself when Madoka spoke. His eyes cracked open to see her with her bow in her hand. It was a good bow, as far as bows went. She looked so happy with herself and that made him happy too.

Glorfindel leaned forward to get a good look at the bow, though his fingers kept busily petting Maru. "It is quite nice. I'm a little envious," he said with a smile. "Where do you keep the arrows?" he asks.

[Such soft kitty ears, completely irresistible!]

"The arrows?"

It's a good question, but Madoka just slowly blinks as she looks at him before turning her gaze back to the bow.

"Well, I just.." Thankfully Madoka is a very considerate girl, which means she makes sure to first turn her bow downwards to the floor before she pulls back the string. Even though she isn't intending to actually fire anything, she doesn't want to cause a terrible accident! Especially not when its potential victims are her sweet kitty and her super nice elf friend!

The moment she does pull the string like that though, an arrow appears on the bow out of nowhere. It doesn't even look like a physical arrow as much as it just seems to be made out of a mix of the dark blue light of the bow with some odd pink light shining through.

"It just appears like that! Isn't that amazing?"

She lets go of the string carefully, making the arrow just fade away. Madoka glances over at the other two with a smile.

"I'm so happy with it. Thank you, Maru."

Maru missed Madoka's moment of confusion. He probably should have explained to her how the bow worked, not that he really knew himself... he'd never seen the weapon before in his life. But it just stood to reason they would have just appeared when she needed them. He hadn't told her though. Luckily she was clever and worked it out, because he was far too distracted by being pet...

He opened his eyes when she addressed him though. "You're welcome."

Glorfindel gives her and the bow an amazed look. "O-kay. That, is...I've never seen the like, and I so want one now." He shook his head immediately, though. "Not that one, that is yours and was given to you for a specific reason. But a bow that does not require physical arrows is...*that's* magic. There are so many times in my life that could have been so helpful." He gave a self-deprecating grin. "I tend to run out of arrows pretty fast, usually."

He gave Maru more pets. "You do good work, Maru."

"Magic.."

Madoka repeats the word with a smile on her face, making the arrow disappear again before clutching the bow to her chest as if it's something precious. It's just amazing. She never thought she'd be able to use anything even remotely like magic in her life - not without throwing her life away by making a contract with Kyubey, anyway. This alternative is so much better.

"Maybe you'll be able to find a bow like this someday too!" Sure, it's not like there's tons of vampire kitties out there to make contracts with and get weapons like these, but it wouldn't surprise Madoka if there were more of these kinds of bows around somewhere in some world the train may travel to. "If you're such a good archer, you deserve one. I'm still a beginner, really.."

Especially, since.. you know. She only just got the bow.

"Maybe you could teach her?" Maru looked up at Shiny Guy. "I don't know anything about bows." The Lead was something for Madoka alone. Chosen by her, for her. A unique weapon tailored for her. Maru had never seen it before Madoka had retrieved it for herself. He'd never needed an actual weapon before.

But if Shiny was good with bows then maybe he could help Madoka where he couldn't? And then when it came mission time she could be more confident with it? "You're able to hold it. The bow, I mean. Not make arrows. Madoka would have to do that..."

"I would be more than happy to teach you, Madoka!" Really, Maru didn't even need to ask. Glorfindel had been teaching for millenia. "After all, we were all beginners once. The only way to get better is to practice. How about in a few days, you and I meet up in the gym and we get some practice in?" He wanted her to have time to bond with Maru, first, after all. Any new friendship deserved some attention.

[And besides, if she'd had lessons before the mission....lol]

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