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<div class="gmail_quote">On Sat, Jul 12, 2008 at 1:40 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<br>> 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<br>> You-Know-Who."<br>
> Cyrus shuddered. "He sounds<br>> really<br>> evil."<br>><br>><br>> "He's as dark as they come, that's<br>> for<br>> sure. So it probably is just<br>> some<br>> security measure, a stop half way there to make<br>
> sure<br>> there aren't any<br>> stowaways." Kadyn smiled in spite of<br>> himself,<br>> because he only half<br>> believed<br>> what he was saying.<br>><br>> Just as Kadyn finished, three soft taps came from<br>
> the<br>> closed<br>> compartment door.<br>><br>><br>><br>> Amber jumped. She wasn't expecting that. Her<br>> head turned to the<br>> door.<br>><br>> It was difficult to see anything outside of the<br>
> dingy cabin<br>> window.<br>> All Amber could see was the shadow of someone<br>> standing outside,<br>> just to<br>> the left staying out of view.<br>><br>> "Should be open the door?" whispered<br>
> Cyrus. His voice trembled<br>> slightly.<br>><br>><br>> Kadyn sighed. "Of course! They did say<br>> someone would be coming around<br>> to<br>> check on us." Kadyn shook his head, and<br>
> opened the door to the<br>> compartment.<br>><br>> Standing on the other side of the door was a<br>> stout man<br>> standing a few<br>> inches short of six feet tall. He had a round<br>> head<br>
> with hair cut very<br>> short and even all around. His sideburns were<br>> shaved<br>> above and around<br>> his ears. He wore glasses that were round and<br>> thick.<br>> His nose seemed<br>> rather large for his face, and his ears stuck<br>
> out. A<br>> straight<br>> expression was on his face showing that he was<br>> calm,<br>> concerned, and<br>> patient.<br>><br>> "I was wonderin' if y'all are<br>> a'needin' any help."<br>
><br>> He spoke in a slow deep kindly drawl which gave<br>> the<br>> feeling of laziness<br>> but, more strongly, a sense that he had a serious<br>> distaste for fooling<br>> around.<br>><br>> "No, I think I'm alright. What about you<br>
> two?" Kadyn looked to his to<br>> friends.<br>><br>><br>> Amber raised her hand slightly but started<br>> talking anyway, "Can you<br>> tell us why the train stopped?"<br>><br>> The man looked directly at her through his glasses.<br>
><br>> "Set back some," he drawled, "Magic<br>> keeps it going, so I reckon<br>> somethin' happened there."<br>><br>> Kadyn nodded, slightly worried now that something<br>> actually had gone wrong,<br>
> and that it wasn't just a security measure.<br>><br>><br>> "So," said Amber, "What do you mean by<br>> that?"<br>><br>> The corners of his mouth bent upwards giving a slight<br>
> smile.<br>><br>> "I apologize," he responded, "for<br>> talking like country folk."<br>><br>> "The spell that keeps the train a'goin'<br>> was interrupted. I've<br>
> been<br>> told that it's needin' a refesh, but that plow<br>> don't scour. It's<br>> the<br>> reason the train was late."<br>><br>> "So, is anyone needin' any help?"<br>
><br>> "No, I don't think so," said Cyrus.<br>><br>><br>> "I think we're okay..." Kadyn looked<br>> around. "Thank you."<br>><br>> "Good," the man said as he looked at Kadyn,<br>
> "I'll be moving on, then."<br>><br>> As he started to walk away they could see that he was<br>> loosely wearing<br>> his robes. Beneath he was wearing a red plaid shirt, blue<br>> overalls,<br>
> and large brown boots.<br>><br>> The boots gave muffled clunks as he walked down the hall<br>> and knocked on<br>> the next cabin door. There was a quick yelp heard through<br>> the cabin<br>> wall.<br>
><br>><br>><br>> Amber jumped again. "What? What happened?" She shouted out after the<br>> man.<br><br></div></div>The man turned and looked back to where he had come from.<br><br>"You kids are so edgy!"<br>
<br>He turned back to wait for the person he had startled to open the cabin<br>door.</blockquote>
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<div>Kadyn laughed, agreeing with what the man had said in regards to Amber.</div>
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