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<div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, Jul 8, 2008 at 3:50 PM, Patrick McCartney <<a href="mailto:hogsmeade@squaredbee.com">hogsmeade@squaredbee.com</a>> wrote:<br>
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<div class="Wj3C7c">> Amber sat in the cabin chair and listened to the<br>> boys talk. Amber<br>> could onlyhear short bits of the boy's story.<br>> "Funny... Mates...<br>> Levitation... Dead" Atthe word<br>
> "dead" Amber shot up and looked out<br>> the window with Kadyn.<br>><br>> "What's wrong with you?" Kadyn<br>> looked at Amber, then went back to<br>> his seat. "Seems as though something's<br>
> gone wrong with the train.<br>> It seems to have gone dead."<br>><br>> "Ohhh..." said Amber, the events<br>> clicked in her head. "What do you<br>> think happened?"<br>><br>
> "I dunno," said Cyrus. He sounded worried.<br>> "This has never happened before,<br>> that I've ever heard of."<br>><br>><br>> "Maybe it's a new way of doing things,<br>
> because of<br>> the down fall of...<br>> You-Know-Who..." Kadyn trembled slightly.<br>> "They<br>> might just have it for<br>> security reasons, or something."<br>><br>> "Maybe." said Cyrus.<br>
><br>> "I do know You-Know-Who." said Amber,<br>> "He's an evil guy. My<br>> parents<br>> told me about him before they left."<br>><br>> "My dad's told me about You-Know-Who."<br>
> Cyrus shuddered. "He sounds<br>> really<br>> evil."<br>><br>><br>> "He's as dark as they come, that's for<br>> sure. So it probably is just<br>> some<br>> security measure, a stop half way there to make sure<br>
> there aren't any<br>> stowaways." Kadyn smiled in spite of himself,<br>> because he only half<br>> believed<br>> what he was saying.<br>><br>> Just as Kadyn finished, three soft taps came from the<br>
> closed<br>> compartment door.<br>><br>><br>><br>> Amber jumped. She wasn't expecting that. Her head turned to the<br>> door.<br>><br>> It was difficult to see anything outside of the dingy cabin<br>
> window.<br>> All Amber could see was the shadow of someone standing outside,<br>> just to<br>> the left staying out of view.<br>><br>> "Should be open the door?" whispered Cyrus. His voice trembled<br>
> slightly.<br>><br>><br>> Kadyn sighed. "Of course! They did say someone would be coming around<br>> to<br>> check on us." Kadyn shook his head, and opened the door to the<br>> compartment.<br>
<br></div></div>Standing on the other side of the door was a stout man standing a few<br>inches short of six feet tall. He had a round head with hair cut very<br>short and even all around. His sideburns were shaved above and around<br>
his ears. He wore glasses that were round and thick. His nose seemed<br>rather large for his face, and his ears stuck out. A straight<br>expression was on his face showing that he was calm, concerned, and<br>patient.<br>
<br>"I was wonderin' if y'all are a'needin' any help."<br><br>He spoke in a slow deep kindly drawl which gave the feeling of laziness<br>but, more strongly, a sense that he had a serious distaste for fooling<br>
around.<br>
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