"Hold steady." Not an instruction you really want while chained to a wall with a huge lady standing over you wielding a hammer, oh and hello again to you too.
"You try holding steady, I'm chained to wall in a moving train! This wouldn't be such a thing if you just carried a sword or something."
"Swords are for idiots, why duel someone when you can smash them in the face." There wasn't a warning, Marian just struck the chain with her hammer and a loud metal on metal sound echoed in the train car. Thankfully her blow struck true and didn't just fuse the chain to the thing I'd been clamped too, though even with the stupid chain broken my cuffs remained in tact leaving me without my magic. "Whew glad that worked, was worried for a second."
"I'm going to ignore that comment Marian, though I'm really happy to see you, how the hell did you find me or get on this train to begin with?" It was a valid question in my mind.
"Later we got bigger problems like getting off train and blowing it up."
"Hopefully in that order." It wouldn't be of course, nothing is ever in the order of safe things to unsafe things, no you have to do the unsafe things first, everytime.
"Unfortunately unless you really want to jump from a speeding train, we have to blow up the engine first, and then we can just hop on down." Marian had started to move to my right towards the entrance she had made for herself, I was about to ask how the shooting and smashing hadn't arisen anyones ire, but the train was so loud it wasn't that surprising. I followed after her, in front of us was another similar looking car to the one we were on. She drew her shotgun up and kicked in the door, it was empty, I could hear her audibly sigh over the train noise (I guess not being able to murder people is a bit of a let down). The car was mostly just boxes fixed to the ground, we moved on to the next car that looked more like a passenger car (would instead of metal). Once again Marian raised up her boot and kicked in the door, inside a bunch of Ronerawthian soldiers turned around in surprise. They were sitting on wooden benches rifles in front of them. I heard Marian let out a huzzah and her shotgun roared to life, I didn't really see what it hit, because she kind of knocked me off the train (sort of), flailing to stay on my feet I snagged a hold of railing on the car she was fighting in. I heard something like "Good idea." over the gunfire, and I almost had to laugh at the absurdity of it (yes I meant to get knocked off the narrow platform between cars to snag a hand hold on the outside).
I struggled holding on for dear life of a train car as the train seemed to be flying down the tracks towards my inevitable execution. It occured to me I could simply drop off here and let the chips fall where they would, but without Marian's guidance I'd probably wind up stumbling into a random pack of cannibals or something equally unlikely for others, but not sadly for me. Inside the car I was sliding down I could hear a lot of shouts and gunfire, at one point a bullet exited a place I was formerly at. After what seemed like forever I reached the end of the car and swung myself to the other side (now at this point you'd wonder "Trezlan why didn't you just get back up to where Marian was?" to which I'd reply "When you are no longer standing near where bullets are being directed you don't jump back in their path"). The next car over was also full of soldiers though they were apparently afraid to get into the fight, I had to think fast on my feet.
"What are you idiots waiting for GET IN THERE OR ROJOVE WILL FLAY YOUR HIDES!" Apparently a shirtless brown skinned man with whipe marks on his chest is commanding because they listened, when the door opened I could see Marian had taken out her mace and was busy showing how deadly a large weapon in tight spaces can be (thats what she said literraly this is what Marian informed me). I didn't wait around to see how things turned out (because I'm a dick, also I had no weapon and no magic, what do you want me to do?). Passing through that car I found my way into what looked like an office car, judging from the noise of the train I was close to the engine at the front. The office area was empty, which was good, I could also see my sword sitting on the desk in the office area, which was better. I rushed to get my sword to at least have some kind of weapon. I didn't really notice that the occupant of the office had returned until a bullet shot right by my nose (and its such a beautiful nose). I rushed him with my sword and we spilled backwards out of his office and into a coal car.
I could really make out who my opponent was, I charged him blindly, we immediately rolled around in coal, so we both looked black as night and then he was firing at me while I was trying to stab him. Beyond the coal car was the actual train engine, I saw the guy controlling the train briefly before a wild shot from my attacker blew a hole in his head and he slumped to the floor. My opponent knocked me backwards toward the boiler that kept the train going and I felt my flesh get seared from the heat (so busted ribs, whipped, and now burned, truely my body is a road map of pain). He clicked the hammer back on his pistol, through the coal I could vaguely make out a large fatman. And then when he should have shot me, nothing, no bang no dead Trezlan (obviously, I keep telling your journal I'm still alive!) he was out of bullets, so I ran him through on my sword and tossed him into the fire (its why I don't carry a pistol, swords never run out of bullets and uhh normally I have magic for everything else). Of course it was only after I tossed him to die in a fire I noticed he had explosives on his belt (why I have no idea).
So I started to run, and trip, and then run some more. I cleared the office before the explosion roared behind me, the train though still had some speed going for it and the explosion seemingly threw the engine into the air and brought it crashing down into the car I was currently occupying. Thankfully I had kept running to avoid this exact scenario (yes of course thats why I did it). I didn't stop my running until I basically ran right into Marian, who had murdered the soldiers who had come to her. She looked no worse for where despite at least fifteen men nearby.
"So uhh stopped the train Marian, and you seemed to have murdered everyone."
"We all have our roles in life Trezlan, now lets get out of here before someone comes looking for this damn thing." It occurs to me I should have been more concerned that Marian effortlessly murdered fifteen men, but you know when you see that many bodies you realize any extra lip could make you number sixteen no problem. This is something you should remember should you run across a similar scenario, just saying.
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