Ep 2, winds in the night

I reported what I’ve found, strangely enough the authorities didn’t care as much as expected. I continue exploring the tracks, finding it go off into a long dark dingy tunnel.

“ this isn’t ominous at all…”

I start to wander into the thin tunnel, finding it to be very dark and creepy, I creep down the way finding old metal parts strewn around the edge of the tunnel. While I started in the darkness my leg gets trapped, between the rotten wood boards.” Oh shit…” creeks and groans from the distance as I heard another train horn. It sounds like a 5000 pound horse bellowing down the track, a giant blinding light shines .

“ oh god!” i struggle looking off to the distance to see a faint crimson red skull swiftly pulling back into the darkness, i finally am able to yank my foot free. I fall to the side wall with a slam, coughing as smoke fills my lungs. The light passes but nothing behind it , there isn’t anything in here.

I am alone in her once more, like nothing just happened. I slide down the cracked concrete wall,” it wasn’t real…. Wasn’t real?” I start to leave the cave when I find a random ticket, a dusty muck cover train ticket .” Huh…” Taking it back to the motel I look it over.

It is a crispy brown ticket barely legible due to the suit and tar on it , talon trolly… 1892. Catch a ride faster than you can think.

“ huh it’s old , over 100 years but didn’t that old timer say 20 years?”

I get out my phone, finding a random dark photo on my camera roll. Darkness with a faint grey in the corner. Using the value sliders on the photos I turn up the brightness.

Faint but a bit visible a dark figure stands in the dark train tunnel with a bit of its skull like face showing .

I sit on the bed realizing how dirty my clothes are, covered in thick layer of muck and residue. Also my foot is bruised and a faint little symbol is burned into my ankle , a t surrounded in a circle. A couple wilts around the burn, I can’t feelel pain from the area.

I take a snap before I send a text to a friend I know. I send her,” hey I found another strange town, mind comming down to help?” Of course as per usual she takes a couple hours to reply. She is a bit of a loof , she very carefree even when facing some of the most terrifying beast head on. Once she was being hunted by an psycho, and she just smile and brung him to a trap. So he got arrested, she mentioned later she did feel fear but she is insanely good at hiding her emotions.

“ yo, what’s been happening? Give me all the details and location and I’ll be over in a flash .”( even through text I can hear her sassy attitude. She always has a embracive personality, she is the one person to jump in if one friend gets attacked at the bar. She is very protective but she is a good bit too confident. She has gotten herself in trouble or hurt way to many times to count. After giving her the address only a couple hours she is already arriving to the motel.

I can hear the rickety old corvet coming to a stop, screeching to a hault.

“ oh joy, the tin can is here, maybe you should get a car that doesn’t fall apart after a five inch drive.” I tease as she falls out the door, she stands up laughing and pushes up the door back on before running up to me with a big silly grin. My life is grim and dark other than her, she is the teddy bear in a bed of broken porcelain dolls.

“ hey big bro, so you saw a dead body? Woa where was it ? And you said you saw it in your closet the night before? Let me see that closet” she already was completely engrossed in this situation, she gently push past me and looked into the closet.

Her name is Amber Lee , her soft pale red hair flows into a ponytail leading down to the end of her shoulder blades. Her darker skin shimmered in the light, she was avarge in shape. She was always in the gym when not facing the horror most hide from . She sniffed around seeing little char marks along the wall,” hmm, interesting?” She mused, we talked about all that’s happened so far. She of course needed to see that tunnel.

We entered for a hour to find nothing, she was really disappointed.” No near death experiencexperience? Damn boring.”she grumbled undoing her pony tail, letting her red hair flow out free. She saw my reaction and smirked, she was a pervert and enjoy teasing me. We have done things in the past , mostly because of her pervy jokes going far. We laid together in the very uncomfortable bed of the motel.” Hmm… well maybe we should idk give the gouls a show? The bed may snap in pieces under us tho.” She laughed to herself, we both heard the faint noises of a disembodied train. She instantly forgot her teasing to go to the window.” Hmm? Nothing out there, heh so neat. Ghost train…”she hummed as she open the door looking around.

I followed her outside, and as we wandered.” Nothing… “ I say as she stopped , no fear but pure excitement. In the distance, the burned man once more, I have seen beast and monsters before but this makes me feel weird. Especially since I found this corpse this morning.” Hey! What happened?” She ask clearly not afraid” the coal …. We need more hands…” the foul smelll of burning ash and coal embittered From it, once one now a herd of 17 burned people stood, reaching out for us.” Join us!” Luckily the vision disappeared but now a ghostly burning train slowly went down the track , Amber watch excitedly she mused.” Ohhhh it is perhaps a train the burned and you know back whenever? Maybe we will have to put the spirits to rest?”

She giggled and pulled me back to the motel, now that she had her haunted experience for the night she has a lot of energy. She is the only person I know who gets off to being scared. By the time I fall asleep I know something is and has been watching us.

“ hope they enjoy the show…” she tease as she fell asleep.”

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