middleofsomewhere | New Plan [For Madoka]

Who: Romeo and Madoka
Where: The caverns
When: Domino, Day Nine
What: Romeo's been thinking about snow creatures and their feelings. He reaches out to Madoka.
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It's been a very tiring few days. There are a lot of people to find and help and Romeo has been running around the tunnels finding people and bringing them back to the central camp. All the running around is good for keeping warm and it also keeps his mind busy.

But as the days go on there are less people to find as everyone has been brought together and though he is helping make sure everyone has food and are warm and are keeping their spirits up there is more time to think and he thinks back to Namine and her snow bear.

The snow creatures don't want to die and they were just made by a bad person to hurt others. That's a bad thing. A big bad thing that requires lots of thinking about. If the snow creatures were trying to hurt all the people here then they were bad. But if it was not their fault and they just had a bad boss. Then they needed rescued.

There weren't really any snow creatures in the caves but he knows the purple team were fighting them. Maybe he should go and tell them. Tell Joss.

It was very cold and snowy out there but the SCA had a map and if he wore his hat it would be alright if he went to try and let the purple team know that the snow creatures didn't want to fight or die. He stood up and walked towards the tunnel that would lead outside and paused. He doesn't want to abandon his team. But also this is important...

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"Yes, that's true. Friends got to look after each other." It was important that friends made sure they all stayed safe.

He smiled at her. "I won't do anything dangerous. I promise." He would make sure to check first, since she was so smart and good and thinking about these things.

It's a good thing he's not saying that part about her being smart out loud or she might just have died.. Madoka can't handle these compliments, especially when she doesn't believe in her good qualities herself.

"Thank you. I promise I won't do anything dangerous either."

At first she just says it, but then a lightbulb seems to turn on in her mind as she has a realisation. Madoka raises her hand, sticking out her pinky at him.

"Ah, let's make it a pinky promise."

"Okay!" Romeo nodded and held out his pinky. Elfnein had taught him all about pinky promises, they were really important! Because if you didn't keep them you had to stab needles in your eyes and that sounded really bad and painful!

In that way they were even more important than a vow!

"Let's promise that we will both keep safe and look out for each other forever!" He held his pinky out solemnly.

Alas, Madoka has no idea about just how literally he takes the whole idea behind a pinky promise.. Otherwise she might have thought twice about this or tried to explain it to him. But instead she just obliviously smiles, since that's such a cute thing to promise. It just makes her glad to know they can look out for each other, even when things get dangerous - as they often do on these missions.

"That sounds good!" She hooks their pinkies together. "Then from now on.. it's a pinky promise!"

He grinned at her as he shook his pinky with hers attached. A promise! They would have to work really hard to make sure they didn't break it!

He shivered. "I just hope the rest of them are all okay out there! It's very cold!"

He was worried about Joss and Elfnein. He knew they were both brave and strong but he still wished he could no how they were!

"Yes, it feels a little strange that we suddenly now can't talk to the others at all, huh..?" Sure, that's been the case during some missions before as well - like when they were in that tower. But it doesn't take away that it still feels weird after having shared a space as relatively small as the train with everyone.

"It'd be nice if we have some way to talk with everyone, but I'm not sure how that would be possible."

She thinks about how Kyuubey helped them communicate telepathically back home even over some distances, but.. you know. There's probably no alien lifeforms determined to use little girls for their entropic plots around...

"It would be nice. Because it's a bit scary not knowing how everyone else is doing!"

It had been like that on the world with the goblins too. But Elfnein hadn't been on the train then. He was worried about Joss too but Elfnein was his goddess. He was supposed to help her and it doesn't feel good to be split up like this!

"In the heavens we had things called phones and we could talk to each other and write to each other. It would be nice to do that here too."

"Oh! I know what phones a--" Wait a second! She suddenly stops mid-sentence, because the true impact of what Romeo was saying is only hitting her after she already started talking. They have phones in heaven?! Well.. she guesses they could, but she never thought about it that way before!

Romeo has been giving her some serious culture shocks as to her idea of heaven... She quickly stammers on, despite her surprise.

"--a.. are! I know what they are, yes! We had those where I come from too. But I think those need a network to work, and I'm not sure if there's some sort of void network.."

Romeo wasn't sure why she seemed so surprised but soon she began talking again. It was good she knew what a phone was, because they were really hard to explain!

"I think they do if you want to connect to the big library. And maybe to talk to people. I don't really know... But they probably won't work in the void. But they might on worlds!"

He has no idea how they work, honestly or really what a network is at all!

Connect to.. the big library? Does he mean the internet? Or maybe the big library is heaven's version of the internet? Madoka has no idea, even though all those questions sure pop up in her head, rendering her quiet for a moment before she finally realises something.

"Wait, mister Ignis has a phone." He showed it to her literally just the other day! "We could ask him if his phone works out here or not."

"He does! We used it when we were cooking!" He thought for a moment, "Um he said there was no cell service in space and I thought that maybe meant he couldn't call people. But maybe he can on the world!"

Or at least connect to the big library even if it couldn't reach his friends! "We can ask him! That's a smart idea, Madoka!"

She shakes her head. "No, I just got the idea because you brought it up! You're really smart, Romeo!"

Apparently it's compliment tennis time.. She's just bouncing that one right back. It's hard to accept compliments more plainly when you're as insecure as her.

"Let's go ask him together, okay?" Especially since this plan feels a lot better to her than Romeo's plan that involved going out there and facing those scary monsters.

"So are you Madoka! You're really smart." He grinned at her, he can bounce compliments back all day. It was part of keeping her spirits up and he was used to it. Elfnein often got embarrassed when he complimented her as well!

"Yes, let's go ask him together!" He reached out for her hand so they could go back into the cavern and find their leader!

New Plan [For Madoka]

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