974/Getting Her Head In The Right Place
From MahouMUSH
Getting Her Head In The Right Place | |
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Date of Scene: | 03 February 2016 |
Location: | Waldians Home |
Synopsis: | Mami is still in a terrible place emotionally after learning about the final secret of Soul Gems. While staying over at the Waldian's place Madoka and the other pink haired girl(Runealy) do their best to cheer her up and give her a new hope for the future. |
Cast of Characters: | Madoka Kaname, Mami Tomoe, Runealy Waldia |
- Madoka Kaname has posed:
Madoka was worried about Mami. She was worried a little, but then Homura warned her that she might still be at risk even after making it past the initial upset.
She was worried a fair amount, but when she went to meet Mami by her last classroom after school she found that she hadn't even shown up.
That made her extremely worried, so she got her phone out and called Mami's cell number right away. After a little bit of discussion, and the further surprise that Mami wasn't even at her own home, Madoka made plans to go visit her at the Waldian's home. She'd met Runealy and Hinote a few times after battles without getting to know them very well, but the fact that they were willing to help Mami out when she needed it said just about everything she needed to know that she didn't already
So now she's standing outside the modern looking house whose style she can very much appreciate, ringing their doorbell with one hand while carefully holding a medium sized and fancily decorated strawberry shortcake in the other. She got it at a bakery on the way over and while it's neither as fancy or as delicious as something Mami herself would make she hopes it might cheer the elegant blonde up.
- Mami Tomoe has posed:
Mami hasn't gone to school - it's strange how unimportant those sorts of things can seem when the very foundations of your reality has turned on its head. It's a good thing she's safe and secure in the Waldian house, staying with Runealy, Hinote, and company - otherwise she might fall victim to the machinations of a little white rat.
When Madoma called, though, she was quick to tell her where she was - after making sure it was alright with the Guardian Princess herself. But even that couldn't really pull her out of her funk, and she's just sort of half-sitting, half laying on the Waldian's couch, trying to put everything together in some rational way in her mind.
- Runealy Waldia has posed:
In the time Mami had been here... Rune had been given a ton to think about. She learned much from the Puella Magi, about Puella Magi. Things that filled in the blanks of the carefully edited version of the truth that Homura had provided. Did Homura know the full truth? Or was the construct what Homura honestly knew at the time? Runealy isn't sure.
Nonetheless, getting the real story was stunning. Stunning enough that she simply had word sent to school that Rune was sick and wouldn't be coming in today. Half-true; no illness, but 'sick with worry' probably counted. If Mami wanted to be alone, she would be alone. If Mami wanted someone, Rune insisted she would be there to listen. Regardless, she has always kept close.
When the doorbell rings, Runealy rises from one of the velvet-padded couches; either a separate one, or the same one Mami was on, at Mami's discretion. "That's probably her. I'll be right back, okay?" She waits for some kind of response, or not, before moving to answer.
The door opens, and Rune addresses the other pink-haired girl with a soft tone and wide eyes: "I don't know how much you know, but... this is really serious. Thank you for being here, and please, come in." She backs aside to allow Madoka entrance. Mami is in plain view from here, as the living room's couches are visible right away once one steps in.
- Madoka Kaname has posed:
The door opens and Madoka smiles to Runealy, though it falters slightly when she sees her expression and hears the worry in her voice. In response to the thanks she's given Madoka a slightly warmer smile, "You're welcome, but thank you for being here as well." She's very glad that there was someone what Mami could turn to at a time like this.
She steps past the other pink haired girl and carefully removes her shoes one at a time, going slowly because of the way she's balancing the cake in her other hand. Her expression is mildly stunned when she sees the interior decoration of the home she's just entered, the old-timey and rustic feel to it a far cry from what she expected. And yet... it works, doesn't it?
As soon as her shoes are off she makes her way inside to the living room where Mami is she blinks a little at seeing the way she's sitting, setting the covered cake down... pretty much on the first available safe surface.
"Mami-san!" At this point she becomes a pink haired, twintailed projectile, rushing over to Mami and dropping down to her knees in front of the couch and leaning in to try and hug her. "I've been so worried about you, Mami-san. When I found out you weren't in class I nearly panicked! It's so good to see that you're alright." Physically alright, in any case.
- Mami Tomoe has posed:
Mami manages to get a half smile due to Madoka's sudden tackle, and she squeezes the girl - but it's a very weak squeeze. She doesn't manage to get quite the verbal niceness she tries for, though, instead sounding very soft and very unlike Mami. "Hey, Kaname-san." she says, quietly.
It's like whatever moment of power she found at the fight against Anshi's witch was short lived - now she's just still nervously playing with the ring on her finger - the ring that contains her soul. The soul that would, inevitably, one day become a witch - if she didn't die first.
- Runealy Waldia has posed:
Rune can't really manage much more than a confirming "mm" to Madoka's thanks, still wrestling for answers to all this. She doesn't bask in the interior decorating, even as an intricately carved wooden table plays host to the cake. She just watches the other pink-haired girl bolt to Mami's side, watches the ring-fidgeting...
...And eventually adds her own piece to this. "So you know, I'm not going to spend much time staring at that gem while we talk through this. I'm not going to stare at it any more than we stare at one another's brains while talking. It's part of you, but..."
She approaches the pair, leaning around to point a palm at Mami's face. "This is what I see, this is what I talk to. What we've learned hasn't changed that much, at least."
- Madoka Kaname has posed:
Madoka stays close to Mami even after she loosens up on the tight grip of her hug. She does her best to offer a smile but she can't quite keep the worry from her expression or her eyes, "I brought cake. I know it won't be as good as anything you make, but I thought it might be nice. Maybe we could even have tea, if you'd like?"
She turns questioning pink eyes first to Mami, and then to Runealy afterwards. It's probably rude to impose something like that on a host, but having tea and cakes has always been a very Mami thing to do while talking about even important topics. She blinks a bit as the ring is noted, wincing slightly at first but then coming to an understanding when she follows the thought up.
"She's right. Mami-san is still Mami-san," Madoka agrees with a nod.
- Mami Tomoe has posed:
Mami perks up a bit. "Cake? You're a very nice girl, Kaname-san." she adds. "We should probably all havbe some. At least I still like cake."
And then she turns to Runealy. "That's very nice of you to say but it doesn't really change the truth. This is my soul. The rest of me is just exterior hardware. I'm just a soul unbound. And one day I'll become a monster."
"The only thing I can do is make sure that when it happens, I have people who aren't afraid to deal with me like one should."
- Runealy Waldia has posed:
'Imposing' on Rune is actually something she would be okay with, if she had much in the way of domestic skills. A life of everyone else enthusiastically preparing meals for you leaves her with little experience at it... and she decides to try to play this off, not eager to serve Mami a bad drink. Instead, she suggests: "That would be fine, if you care to help me pick out the right one?" A nod to the other pink-haired girl. "I'm still learning the local flavors." Another half-truth, but well meaning; Mami would probably benefit from /good/ drinks right now, not the ill-prepared junk Rune would sling out if left to her own inexperienced devices.
Then... Mami says something that guts any slickly prepared, immediate answer. Instead, Rune's first reply is a hurt gasp... the sort of noise one might make if unexpectedly punched in the stomach. The look on her face isn't all that far removed from it, either.
It leaves her scrambling for something to say, desperate to redirect the topic. Sometimes it's important to just let someone vent instead of hurling advice, but... when their line of thought is concluding in 'and then my friends need to mercy-kill me quickly', Rune can't imagine just letting that thought go unchecked.
A frantic mind grasps at a possible answer. To introduce doubt. "Are you sure that's the only option? That there isn't some other solution that just hasn't been found yet? I don't know what it would be," she's expecting that question, "but there has to be something if we keep looking. Otherwise..."
Rune's throat tightens up as she envisions what Mami's current 'conclusion' would look like, and starts crying. "You're really asking me to 'deal with' you, someone who knows where I'm coming from on things, someone I just faced skyscrapers with, someone I made a deal with! I don't want that!"
- Madoka Kaname has posed:
Madoka smiles when Mami perks, "Yes, cake would be good, wouldn't it?" The tea seems to be a bit much to ask at the moment however, since it would require both of the pink haired girls and she doesn't much feel like leaving Mami alone right now. "Maybe just the cake would be best for now." She shoots Runealy an apologetic look, hoping her sudden change of mind doesn't annoy her.
Then Mami says something self condemning and, frankly, horrible. Her head immediately shakes, "That's not true! You're wrong, Mami-san. You aren't just cold machine." She had this same conversation just a day ago and it wrenches at her to be having it again, but she pushes on anyway. Of course she can't go about it in exactly the same way as she did with Homura.
She pulls away from the hug now, taking one of Mami's hands in her own and looking into her eyes. "If that were true I wouldn't be able to see the pain in your eyes. It wouldn't mean anything if I held your hand or hugged you. But it does, and I do! It doesn't matter where your soul is. Your body is still your body. You're still you no matter where your soul resides."
She pauses thoughtfully for a moment and then decides to go exactly the opposite route the other pink haired girl took earlier. "All your soul being out of your body means is that we can see just how brilliant and beautiful it really is. You're a wonderful, kind, and caring person who does everything she can to help other people, so of course Mami-san's soul would be so bright and beautiful."
She nods then, emphatically to something Runealy says but steers it in a slightly different direction. "I refuse to believe there isn't another way. There must be something we can do, we just haven't found it yet. And maybe the only reason we haven't found it is because we didn't know to try."
Seeing that Runealy is starting to cry as well she lets go of Mami's hands with one of hers and reaches out to Runealy, offering it in support if she'd like it.
- Mami Tomoe has posed:
Mami smiles a bit. It's a sour smile, a sad smile, but she hugs Runealy all the same. "Look... it's just the way things are now. Maybe there's a way out, and I'll keep looking. I don't /want/ to become a witch. But if I do, I want to know I have people I can count on to keep me from hurting anyone. Because... I spent my life since I became a magical girl trying to help people. I don't want that undone by the end result of this wish."
She's trying to put on a brave front, but unlike usually, it's painfully obvious. She doesn't believe all of the things she's saying, but she wants to. And some of the things Madoka says helps that along, as well. But when she sees Runealy crying over her? That changes everything.
"Runealy-san, please don't cry over me. I already got my miracle. This is just the way things are." she says, keeping that stern face and wrapping her arms around Runealy. "You have a country to think about, too. I'm just one girl. And I'm still doing a lot of good."
- Runealy Waldia has posed:
Rune blinks repeatedly, surprised and then impressed as Madoka opts to turn the Soul Gem from a problem into a metaphor. The alien princess had only been looking at it one layer deep, seeing it as an issue to solve. And perhaps it still is, but even temporarily reframing it into something else may be very helpful. She nonetheless takes the hand and insists in agreement with the other pink-haired girl, "I didn't even know to begin looking! Probably none of us did!"
Her gaze jerks up to face Mami as soon as her guest speaks, hanging on every word... even more so as Mami holds on to her, and she moves to embrace the other two as well, trying to make this some sort of three-way huddle.
"Am I supposed to be okay with that? Destroying you and saying 'it was just one person. This is for the glory of my nation, my world.' Then what? Do I keep doing that? How many 'one person's do I need to become Queen? One? Two? Five? A hundred? Mom never talked like that, and I don't want to start with you! You're in a really bad spot, it's terrible and scary and this has to be even worse for someone like you who hasn't been about surviving at all costs, no matter what happens to others, but... we need to find a way through this. You not being here would just...!" Her voice cuts off with a sharp sob.
- Madoka Kaname has posed:
A three way huddle works fine for Madoka if it does for the other two, tightly hugging onto them both while also trying to pull the Puella Magi and the Princess to each other. She might be laying some groundwork but it seems to her that Runealy is really starting to get through to Mami.
Moreover hearing anguished cries and please is enough to put tears in the corners of Madoka's eyes as well, though she's trying to keep them from falling. "N-no, that isn't right. No one should ever have to do that to their friend. It's terrible and it's cruel to make someone do that. But Rune-chan, I don't think anyone would blame you or think you a monster. No one would think you would do something like that in order to get something for yourself."
She hugs herself tighter against the both of them, "It would be horrible without Mami-san," she agrees in a quieter tone. "To lose you just when I was starting to be your friend... I don't want that."
- Mami Tomoe has posed:
"No, no. You just need to understand how important you are. Not just to me. I'm used to people..." and that's when she just... loses it. She goes from a brave face, to a crying one, so rapidly it seems like she's undergone one major mood swing, but really it's just because here, with Madoka and Runealy, she seems able to let herself go, let out something she's been hiding. And she reaches out, hugging Runealy and squeezing Madoka's hand. "I'm used to having people need to leave me on their own. It's not the first time." she says, and the tears are down her eyes.
"That's why I care about you so much. All of you. Even Akemi-san. But when it comes down to it, I know everyone's just going to leave me alone anyways. I always lose everyone else!"
She's crumpling the other girls' shirts as she squeezes them. "I don't want to become a witch. But I don't want to hurt anyone either. I don't want to die, but I can't live either?!" she says, looking down as she turns her ring into her soul gem.
"I'm sure the other girls all had pretty soul gems too. Maybe prettier. " Mami's is about half-black, now - just from the emotional trauma. "I don't know what I should do. I've tried to be brave for so long, for so many people. I'm supposed to be the magical girl sempai. I'm supposed to be the one who crahses through windows and saves people. But this is just too much."
- Runealy Waldia has posed:
"They wouldn't blame me, but we'd still have to live with it!" Rune is quick to go with Madoka's line of thought. "We'd have to walk by an empty apartment and think 'Mami isn't there anymore', and...!" Again her words cut off with a sharp cry.
A moment later, she tries to seize on what Mami just said. "Maybe it needs to be the last time you're left alone. Maybe you need to be here for a while with Madoka and cake and a safe room and all of that. Maybe you need someone standing beside your weapons on those skyscrapers, listening to your timing and having your back. Seeing as you already crashed through a window to save me," Quite literally in that case, even if the window was already mostly open and something else was pinning Rune down in the battle against Walpurgishnacht,
"Maybe it's okay if you work with us to find some other way through this. If you don't want to die, but you can't live as the way you are... then can you at least bear it for a while longer, and come with us to look for that 'third way'?"
- Madoka Kaname has posed:
The fact that her shirt is getting rumpled is the very least of Madoka's worries right now. In fact it's so far down there that it doesn't even register and she wouldn't care if it did. The fact that Mami and Runealy are hurting is the only thing that matters right now, and she clings tightly to them both, "I'm sorry! I'm sorry if I haven't been spending much time with you, Mami-san!" It really does eat at her, that maybe she could have helped prevent some of this pain. "But that doesn't mean I'm going to leave you. I never meant to, or wanted to abandon you!"
She gives a shake of her head, "You don't have to give up on life over something like this. We're here for you if you need us, Mami-san. Even Homura-chan. She worries about you, you know? Even if she has a hard time saying it. She isn't willing to give up on you and doesn't want to."
Despite the tears she's no longer succeeding in containing Madoka hugs Mami and offers as soothing a quiet shushing as she can, "Shhhh. It's okay, Mami-san. It's going to be alright. You don't have to always be strong. It's okay if you hurt, or feel lonely, or cry. I will never think any less of you because of something like that. You can be a sempai even if you have weaknesses." A short pause and she adds in a kind tone, "Or if you'd rather just be a friend that's okay too. Mami-san is a wonderful person and I care about her, no matter what."
- Mami Tomoe has posed:
Mami nods a bit. "I think... I think I should stay with someone for a while, yeah. I don't think it'd be any good if I was alone right now." she admits. "I haven't had someone to watch my back for a long time." she says. "I was hoping Miki-san - but she fell in with Sakura-san. And Kaname-san"... and then she stops.
"Kaname-san, you can't make the contract with what you know now. Forget everything. It's not worth it just to become some monster." she says, looking at Madoka intently. She has to let go of Rune to wipe the tears from her eyes. "You have a good life. A good family. There's nothing you need to wish for this badly."
"...maybe we can find another way, like you found another way, Runealy-san. I do feel like Akemi-san would've seen it though, if what she says is true, and I have no reason to believe it's not. And if all this was a lie, I think... I think Kyubey would tell me. I still don't have any reason to think he's not told the truth."
"Akemi-san worries far more about you than she does me, Kaname-san." Mami says, patting her on the head a bit even, smiling. "Treasure that. Someone who cares so dearly about you - as to do what she's done for you? That's something you must treasure."
"I know you didn't mean to... leave me alone... - and I understand why you'd cling so tightly to someone who'd sacrifice so much for you."
- Runealy Waldia has posed:
"You can stay here as long as you want. Our safe room will be there until you feel it. Protected and happy," Rune insists to Mami with a single, sharp nod. "You talked about who would see other ways, just now. I'll say this... I looked, but only from my perspective. Friends had to tell me 'no' and refuse to keep going down the 'solution' I found, and confront me with other ideas before I turned around. Even if she's a time traveler, it's possible she sees things from just one perspective too. She might be missing something."
Rune breaks her promise. Not the one to look out for Mami, but the one to avoid looking at a certain stone. "Think about it." She points at the Soul Gem. "You saw it as something to be scared of what it represents." Or so Rune guesses; it seems to fit what Mami has said. "I saw it as a 'problem to solve', and it might still be. That was the conclusion we reached. Madoka here..." A nod over to the other pink-haired girl, "was the one to point out what /else/ it represents in the meantime, what it says about you. That was her perspective, and we didn't find it until she pointed it out!"
- Madoka Kaname has posed:
Madoka looks slightly embarrassed as suddenly Mami turns her attention to her, "I won't, Mami-san. I promised Homura-chan that I wouldn't accept Kyubey contract unless there is something that is actually worth all the downsides it brings." Her tone helps to express just how unlikely that it is that something like that even exists. It might be a little misleading; there's only one thing she'd consider worth it and some people would argue that even that is too much. She had a fight with Homura about exactly that.
She's quick to agree with the mention of finding another way, and just as quick to shake her head, "Homura-chan might not have been able to find a solution because she only ever had a month and a half to look before needing to start over. In the end she had to focus only on her own survival and trying to save one person because of that..." It's pretty obvious by what Mami says next that Madoka herself is that 'one person', if the conversation to this point wasn't enough to tip Runealy off.
"I do treasure it. I'm very grateful for Homura-chan and everything she's put herself through. I don't know what I did to deserve such devotion but I'll never forget it." She smiles up to Mami when her head is patted, using the cuff of her sleeve to wipe the errant tears off her face and the tears of others that fell. "Even if I didn't mean to... I'm sorry if I did."
She turns then to the other pink haired girl and smiles. "Thank you- for everything. You're willing to let someone stay with you who you don't know very well," a guess based on the fact that Mami was considering herself abandoned and alone. "This... is the second time you've done this, isn't it? It was you who offered Erin-chan a place to go when she had nowhere else to turn to. You really are a kind person, opening your home to people in need."
- Mami Tomoe has posed:
Mami nods at Runealy. "I can't promise I won't be... needed." she says, pulling out her Virtue phone as if to demonstrate. "But... if it's alright with you..." Mami takes a big, heavy sigh. She's been working with enough magical girls, for long enough, that she can spot some of the negative traits she has even as she's grappling with them, now that the initial moment of shock and drama is over. "..I'd really like to come back here for a little bit, until I'm okay again. I'm sorry for imposing. But my apartment is really... quiet. Lonely. It's why I like having company over so much." she admits, bearing a lot of her personal tragedies to the two girls.
"I think what you said is very beautiful." she says, looking down at the gem. "About this thing. Which, I guess, is me." she admits. "It's just... it's all such a shock. I've felled hundreds of witches over these years. And to think every one of those was once a magical girl like me or you..." the you being clearly directed at Rune "...I know obviously I couldn't let them bring sorrow. I know those girls wouldn't have wanted that, like Anshi didn't want it. But..."
Mami trails off. "I know it's not the time to give up. It's just a different battle than the one I've been fighting for so long. And... I'm responsible for some of it." she says. This might be the heaviest burden she's trying to carry. "I really tried not to, but I wanted friends, allies, teammates. So I didn't exactly disuade girls from contracting with Kyubey. And I would've, if I had known these consequences."
"Runealy-san is a very wonderful person. Looking at her, and what she went through, and hearing about all of that... it gives me hope I can overcome all of this." she says.
- Runealy Waldia has posed:
Getting some insight into Homura's 'one person', Homura's full goal, is helpful. Rune had partial information, enough to guess that Homura was very strongly bent on one important task to the possible exclusion of others, but now bits of knowledge come together to explain most of it.
Then the other pink-haired girl makes a fascinating guess about Rune's relations with Mami. "You're half right. I only barely know her, but the parts I know are enough to see we've gone through a lot of the same things... and I saw her help someone else who was facing the same pain we did. Since Mami and I have something like that in common," a single, sharp nod over to her grieving guest, "We made a promise to watch out for each other."
Her eyes stay on Mami, not at all dissuaded by talk of Virtue obligations. "I've never seen that kind of phone before. But if you're saying someone will call you for help... if you think you're up to it, go. I'll go with you, or one of my Knights will. That's why you can stay here, too. We picked out that room so that whoever needed it would be surrounded by friends. However long you need to think through things that can never be taken back..."
Rune starts to clear up her sniffling, but she's obviously still shaken by earlier prospects of having to 'gun down' Mami-as-a-Witch, "...you can have as much time as you need. We'll work with you, and if there are times you're just too hurt or just can't do it... it's okay to let us be your 'Circle of Shields.'" She's invoking a social concept from her homeworld, one that it's possible neither Mami or Madoka have even slightly heard of before. "Not just those of us here, but Madoka and others sound like they want to be part of that ring."
- Madoka Kaname has posed:
"What you did was make sure girls that once had hopes and dreams were no longer able to curse people, Mami-san. I know it's terrible but I can't think of anyone who would want to do something like that. You weren't just destroying Magical Girls who had lost their way; they weren't themselves anymore. If anything you were putting their spirits to rest, doing them a great favor." It's about the best possible spin on it that Madoka can, even if it's already been said before and even by Mami herself.
Madoka looks between the two magical girls and smiles, "Circle of Shields? I don't know exactly what that means but I like the sound of it." She's quick to nod her head, "Yes! I'm happy to do anything I can to help. Mami-san is a wonderful person who tries her hardest." She smiles over to the Puella and shakes her head, "You can't be blamed for withholding information you didn't know. You did make it easy to want to be someone as beautiful and strong as you, but you also made sure to tell us about all the dangers you knew of."
With another soft shake of her head she adds, "No one could ever blame you for wanting to have friends. I never realized how lonely you were... I'm very happy to be your friend, Mami-san, whether I'm a magical girl or not."
- Mami Tomoe has posed:
Mami inclines her head towards Madoka. "Runealy-san and I are very close in ways that... aren't about time or knowledge. It's a connection, like she said. We have a lot in common, and we are trying to look out for each other."
"I don't want to become too much of a burden to you, though." she says when Rune offers to go. "I'll be sure to call you if I think I need your help though... I also wouldn't want to burden you by having you scoop me off the pavement." she says with a bit of a grin, despite that maybe being a real possibility, given how Kyouko had been exhausting herself.
"It's a real boon, having you to lean on when I'm stumbling." she admits. And then to Madoka, she nods. "I know I was doing them a favor - I was protecting people, and preventing their hopes from becoming a curse. "But knowing it up here..." she says, tapping the side of her head "doesn't always mean I know it in my heart." Then she looks down. "Or... in my soul... gem... I guess." she says. Those sort of comments are made much stranger by the truth of that situation.
"I don't want to just be shielded by someone, though. I don't want to be the weak link. I want to be a part of that circle. I want to help you two, as well. I can't help but think that one of the best ways forward is to help other people. To remember what it is about being a Puella Magi that is good." she says, as much to herself as those around her. "If I just waste away... I'm not making the best of it. And I think there's still so many people I can help, I can save. Especially if I have friends like you willing to help me. It's just... going to take a little bit for me to get there." she says, almost fully cognisant of her own state.
"I'm happy to be your friend too, Kaname-san. And you can rely on me, whenever you need help. Even if I need help to help you."
- Runealy Waldia has posed:
The other pink-haired girl's thoughts on defeating witches momentarily silence Rune, as she realizes she has been doing the same thing. It explains so many things, like why demon-sealing magic has no effect on these 'monsters.' Nonetheless, the princess goes on to explain: "Back home, we think of relations as rings around yourself. You imagine them as shields all around, protecting you. Of course, you're part of someone else's circle too... so it's not as selfish as it might sound at first."
Then to Mami, Rune insists: "I'd rather scoop you up a thousand times than say 'goodbye forever' once. Still, I get what you mean about wanting to do your own part. And you still can. It's just that if you're hurt, it's okay to sit something out. Sometimes, while I was really sick, I didn't do that... and it caused even more trouble for friends who had to jump into danger to help me out. All because of pride." She softens up after that. "So I'm just hoping you'll find the right balance between those. You're in my 'circle' in any case, and..." Her head turns to face Madoka, "I think the same of you. It's obvious you're doing a lot to help, 'magic or not', and it's amazing to see!"
- Madoka Kaname has posed:
Madoka is quiet for a short while after listening to the other two speak. This is because she's snuck off to the kitchen and looked around inside of it to find the proper utensils and plates. Mami seems have gotten her head together and is able to start coping with things, which means it's the perfect time to serve that cake. She sets down three plates, one in front of herself, another in front of the blonde Puella, and the final one in front of the other pink haired girl, slowly and carefully using the large knife she brought to cut the cake in to many small, even pieces. Finally she sets a piece onto each of the plates, smiling to the other two girls, "I know it won't be as good as Mami-sans, but please enjoy!"
- Mami Tomoe has posed:
"That sounds good then, Runealy-san. I want to be in your shield circle as much as I want you in mine." she says with a soft smile. "And I think... I think until we find a solution, it's best to be realistic about the fact that there's a nonzero chance you'll have to say that." she says, quietly. "But I want to make as many good memories with you, and help you as much as I can, so if it does come to that... you won't feel terribly sad forever, and you'll be able to remember the good times. I've dealt with... a lot of loss... in my time as a Puella. And I want to make it as easy as I can. And maybe we'll find a solution, and then we'll just have good times and everything will be okay anyways!" she says, trying to strike as hopeful a tone as she can.
Madoka brings over cake, and Mami smiles. "I'm sure it'll be wonderful, Kaname-san. Lets eat cake... and lets... lets look to the good things we have, as much as we try to find solutions to the problems we have."