They get inside and arrange sleeping partners.
Of course, the couples couple up.
Marigold and Nina get to their room
“Is it comfy?”
“Yessssss”
“Hehe, seems like we’ll actually get to relax this time”
“I could fall asleep right here… But the train experience…”
“We can sleep later, let’s have fun! In a calm pace”
“Well, what should we do? Look at the scenery pass by? Crochet?”
“Hmm…”
A fun expression passes her face
“You should be bad.”
“Oh? Should I?”
“You should be bad!!”
“Nina, we’re in a mission. The hunt of the season”
“Let’s snatch their wine”
“Ehehehe”
Talking to Nina always makes her feel younger. As if they were still college students with small responsibilities.
As if they never grew old.
As if life didn’t get in the way.
But enough of that, there’s wine to snatch.
She enters the eating area
The objective has been located, behind a devious guard. What riddles will she have to solve?
“Excuse me, can we take these?”
“Of course.”
Fool. Now they are gonna take it! AND drink it!
“And these?”
“You can take any”
He doesn’t suspect a thing
“Here here, it’s the fruit one that you like”
“Oh! It’s been a while! since I had this”
To imagine that smile was erased for so long. And Mari has no one to blame but herself.
Well. There’s someone else to blame but she’d rather not speak ill of the dead. It’s not worth her time.
She finishes her cup in one go. She can feel it in her system.
She used to be able to down coffee, beer and energy drinks like there was no tomorrow, but these days alcohol hits heavier.
Like her knees.
And back.
And various other articulations.
Sadly, for those parts, a good song just came up in her head and has injected rhythm in her blood.
“Careful with your dress!”
“We’re in vacation! Dresses don’t get stained!”
“Say that to you tailor!”
“I’ll tell him to shove it!”
“What are you even dancing to?”
“Beethoven symphony number 5”
“Really?”
“No, it was Footloose”
“Hahaha!”
She moves in a manner that would terrorize her ballet teacher. He can shove it too.
Oh right! The wine! Happiness should be shared.
“Let’s share this”
That detective is no lightweight, he’d give this drink good use.
They go back to where everyone is and have yet another cup, this time in cheerful chorus.
Until Vivi arrives with the latest news: New people are here!
A group of young adults, possibly university students. The type to hitchhike across the country.
Part of her always wondered how that would be, but she’s too used to the comforts of modern transportation and housing to brave it out in nature.
…If she were to be in an abandoned island, would she survive? Her spirit is too strong to give up, but her skills just aren’t enough. She knows nothing of that life.
Oh well. That’s not going to happen, so she shouldn’t worry.
Huh. For an objectively relaxing trip, she sure has a lot of weird things coming to mind.
One of them is the word “haunted”.
Oliver and Ángel explained it. She’s a bit… sad, that Nadia didn’t trust her with this. She said it was to not worry her, but Marigold is her mother! Worrying is what she’s here for!
He’s lucky she never found him at the house. She would’ve given him the talk of a lifetime.
Also killed him, maybe.
Anyways, train is haunted? Yeah, right. She can’t help but admire the publicity stunt, but these kids are taking it too seriously.
Great accidents, ghosts, otherworldly monsters, they’re still too young to understand where the true horror lies.
A heart full of greed.
He says her piece and leaves; she has no time for bedtime stories.
It seems that Nina decided to hang around for a bit, probably to talk about the glasses girl.
Even as much as everyone has tried, no one can truly cure Nina’s heart.
And she highly doubts if His ghost appears it would make it any better.
She walks until she remembers that she doesn’t have to go anywhere
Wineless and Wifeless, she sets a new objective.
