middleofsomewhere | So Familiar a Gleam: Conclusion

Time to leave!

There is not much of the city left, but the park is holding together as those anchoring help those who are not voidtreckers through back to where they belong. Monsters continue to attack and a little further out there is a battle of hearts and minds being fought with the mass of colours and chaos.

Eventually, after the bulk of citizens had been evacuated everyone with SCA's on would hear Jin-Roh's voice after a few frantic beeps, as Chiff aligned everyone's SCA's. "We are almost done here, if you are with anyone not tethered to a voidcraft get them to the evacuation point, as quickly as possible."

Anan pulls out of the anchoring point to call out to any defenders in the park. "Come on! Anyone who isn't a voidtrecker! It's time to go."

Luckily those off fighting the entity headed the message and made their way to the park as Jin Roh spoke again.

"Everyone else get ready. When we call it you need to leave. If you don't have your SCA on then get to someone who does."

As the last people rushed to the park Anan calls out again, through her SCA and outloud to the park. "You need to unanchor, before you can evacuate. Everyone be ready."

She goes in again though, because there are some last people, those from the large battle, getting through as another message was called.

"Almost there. Be ready. On my command..."

Anan unanchored again. "Quick everyone unanchor."

"NOW" Jin Roh's voice came through strong on their SCA's. Hopefully those with SCA's would grab those without.

There is some outside help as well, the train pulls anyone who is unconscious or still under the entity's control, forcibly evacuating them. This includes Wei Wuxian, Lan Wangji and Zagreus.

Luggage Carriage

There has been a mass evacuation before and that was crazy enough but since then the population of the train has almost doubled and now it is an extremely tight squeeze as everyone crashes into the luggage carriage at the same time.

The train jerks and rolls as they enter into the void at breakneck speed and again as they seem to slow, rather than speeding off though the void.

There's a crackling from their SCA's. "Voidtreckers? Voidtreckers come in!" Anan's voice. "Please tell me you made it..."

There's only a few moments of signal and soon they are flying though the void again, away from the strange non-world, the entity sealed for now. To new adventures, but first hopefully some time to recover from all that has happened.

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Nell nodded. "Yes. And some work with different things, like weather or earth or the moon. I don't know a whole lot about them, though my church just thinks anyone workin' magic in general is evil."

She stopped. "Not my church. Not anymore at least."

"That's a little strange.."

Especially since it's not like Madoka has much experience with faith back home, so she can't easily see how someone would arrive at that conclusion. Sure, she thinks all witches from her world are bad, but that's for an entirely different reason - it's since they attack people and kill them!

"I mean, shouldn't the only thing that determines whether you're good or bad be whether you're doing good or bad things in the first place..?"

She's almost done with the food now though, even as she's talking!

"You would think so," Nell said. "And I'd agree with you. But the church... they'uns would not."

Nell was quiet for a moment, then couldn't help but giggle a little. "I can't imagine what they'd do if they ended up here."

Madoka tries to imagine it. If they thought magic was evil..

.. well, there's a whole lot of that here, isn't there?

"They'd probably be.. very confused," she slowly says. "I don't think they'd be able to believe what they're seeing here, from what you're making them sound like.."

Somewhere between the people casually using magic, the train that can travel to different dimensions, all the alien-looking people..

"They'd be highly offended and shocked," Nell said. "And they'd want to get rid of it all, but they wouldn't be able to actually achieve anything."

She smiled. "It would frustrate they'uns a lot."

"Well, then it's a good thing that they aren't here."

Though Madoka does suppose she can't completely deny the idea that they might show up here one day after all. The train doesn't seem to be too picky when it comes to picking up people for these missions..

Madoka hums, putting the food on a plate and putting it down in front of Nell.

"Here you go, please eat! So you at least won't get really hungry while you sleep later."

"A very good thing," Nell agreed, then smiled at the plate Madoka put in front of her. "Oh, this smells delicious! Thank you!"

She tucked in, realizing that she was quite ravenous, and for a few minutes all she focused on was the food. When she finally came up for air, stomach sated a bit, she realized she'd completely ignored Madoka as she ate. "M'sorry," she said. "I guess I was even more hungry than I thought and your food was so good..."

She laughs a little, seeming to not mind.

Granted, there's an edge to the laugh that sounds maybe a little awkward, but it's mostly because she's kind of flustered! Madoka isn't really used to getting compliments about her food, and she sure doesn't know how to handle it.

"O-Oh, I'm.. just glad you liked it! Don't worry!" She shakes her head. "Besides, it's impolite to talk and eat at the same time, so I'm glad that you're instead choosing to fill your stomach first!"

After all, that was her whole purpose in dragging the other over here - to make sure Nell would at least eat and feel a little better before sleeping.

It didn't take long for Nell to eat almost everything on her plate, slowing as her stomach filled. She could feel her eyes trying to close. "M'sorry again, Madoka. I think I could fall asleep right here now that I'm full up with your wonderful meal. Would you mind very much if I had to head back to my cabin?"

"Of course not!"

Please, it's not like Madoka is ever going to stop anyone from doing what they want - and especially not when said someone looks like they're about to pass out on the floor.

So she quickly shakes her head.

Madoka's only concern here being: "Do you think you could make it back by yourself..?" She's not so sure Nell looks like she could do as much at the moment without falling asleep along the way.

"I think so," Nell said. "Another friend showed me how to use the transport thingys, so I should be able to get back pretty easily."

She smiled at her a little sleepily. "My stomach is happy and my heart is happy with all the help you'un have given me. Is there anything I can do for you?"

She shakes her head.

"No, I'm fine." Especially when Nell is this tired, honestly. Madoka already has a hard time asking for anything from anyone, let alone from someone who seems totally exhausted..

".. Just get some good rest, that's enough for me."

After all, Madoka is happy as long as the people around her are happy.

"All right then," Nell said and sleepily stood and stretched a little. "Then I thank you kindly again for the meal - I'll have to make one for you sometime - and I think I'll say goodnight and go fall into my bed."

She smiled at Madoka. "I'm sure I'll see you again soon."

So Familiar a Gleam: Conclusion

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