20200112

Day 1,955

Luckmore Railways would like to apologize for the continued delay.
The red signal at Lesser Skelway is still ongoing.
Thank you for your patience.

The conductor sounded as tired and exasperated as we all felt as we resigned ourselves to our third hour of being stuck in a stiflingly hot carriage on a train that was being held up by god only knew what. There's only so many times you can try to pry open a window before you realise the latch is glued on.

It took about half an hour for the metallic scent of blood to reach us but by then the train started moving and we were just relieved to be going at long last. We barely paid attention as the conductor thanked us for our patience yet again and declared Lesser Skelway to be our next stop trough barely concealed crying.

When we got to the station we were greeted with an army of official looking people and more ambulances than we'd ever seen before. Much to our dismay we were evicted from the train and questioned about what we'd seen or heard.

As we were at the rearmost carriage, we'd been spared from the utter carnage that had swarmed through the train and bathed every surface in a thick layer of blood and viscera. They weren't even using body bags - they just filled deep set trays with as much as they could and carted them off.


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