Riding the Rails

I was seated in second class (nice seats but not specific sleeping compartments, you have to sleep in bunk beds with other passengers, so I chose of course to sleep in my seat like everyone else). The train ride was fairly nice, not too crowded or too bumpy, trains had of course improved a lot over the years. I was alone in my row just reading the paper, when someone asked if they could sit down. I said yes its not like I owned the train, it didn't occur to me for a few minutes who had sat down next to me.

"Glad to see your powers of observation are still as strong as ever Trezlan." It was the Fire God, she was dressed in a casual suit, but that might just be how I would always see her now, gods know what she looked like to everyone else.

"I ought to..." I put the paper down and raised my hand up in a threatening gesture, well wiggled my fingers. Look I was angry.

"Try and kill me? Please with your necromancy you at best could harm me, even then I would be able to burn you to the ground without a second thought, and for what a dream you had where I sent you to a place you didn't like? Do you threaten all other people for the dreams you have?" She had a twinkle in her eye I didn't like, something that told me it wasn't a dream, and she knew that.

"I could still try." It was pouting of course at this point, as had been explained to me earlier she was becoming the God and not just A god and her power was pretty damn strong prior to that.

"Of course you would darling, of course you would." She patted my hand in the most patronizing move ever. We sat in silence for a moment. I wondered what she was even doing there, seemed completely out of character to just stop in for a chat. She eventually reached into her pocket and handed me some pistol magazines.

"You need me to do something else for you?" She frowned.

"No, I just wanted to help you out since you ran out of bullets."

"You aren't mad I was using your weapon for something so petty as to help myself?" She started laughing, it was a deep full body laugh that worried me (I'm always afraid when power creatures laugh at me there is something inherently unsettling about it).

"Mad? Why would I be mad, with each of those things you killed by my hand you were basically giving their power to me."

"Well that's horrible."

"Why that you sacrificed evil to me? You have a weird definition of horrible."

"If dealing with you has proved anything to me, the gods are never ones to trifle with let alone assist in direct ways."

"And yet you keep doing it, funny how that works, well my dear this conversation was enlightening, but I do have things to do people to see, take care." She disappeared in a flash of fire leaving the room feeling slightly too warm like when your fireplace burns for too long. But she did give me bullets and that was reassuring since I was truly out of ammunition. Thankfully I didn't have any need of that as the train ride was quiet and I made it home safely, which seems like a minor miracle in and of itself!