Shadow of a Train

Chapter 3: Nightmares

You have heard the tale of Victoria's time in The Orphanage now we go onto another individual you already encounter by the name of Jamie.

A flashes of the past from a home cooked meal in their family compartment on the trains the ever moving images of a world outside the windows to that fateful day where He was kidnapped by Child Catchers, Jamie had a life before the Orphanage He knew deep down this was not his home He would not accept this place He was not an orphan.

What Jamie could recoil of his past it's was good it's was happy before this place Jamie live on a train a House Train with his family it was called Hammer-Smith He always be on it He grew up on it Jamie had explore the world with his family from trips to London including Queen Victoria Hall to Museum of the Lost Age a gallery of objects that be collected over the years before the Chaos Years,

Each trip excited Jamie even at a young age when the Hammer-Smith stop for one of it's annual maintenance breaks that's was the time for travel if the Train set off before you got back these always your passport and Train Pocket watch a device that use a sort of homing and communication device to people of the Hammer-Smith.

One day when the Train was on one of it's maintenance breaks the Walshams set out in the nearby city filled with life winds of the smell of smoke from outlying factories steam power was for this place it's main source of energy that supplies this city.

Busy with activity citizens milling around Jamie had never be in a city quite like this that's the thing with these visits Jamie got a taste of the world outside of just the train windows He was not trapped He like the Train it's warm and conformity nature was all good they wandered the streets dipping into and out of markets stepping into quant stores that sold all sort of stuff clocks that would tell the time backwards to tiny hunters on the attack of a bronze made bears.

That's till while cutting through a back alley a howling from the sky as a mysterious yellow gas appeared from sewage vents as masked individuals came in and swept up Jamie. The next set flashes of him in a cage being sent in a boat and a feeling of hopelessness, a dark presence hidden in the shadows, a creature of mechanical nature, deep red set eyes following Jamie and then it was over this nightmare of events.

He woke up in a terrible sweat looking around seeing the other boys in sleeping happily as anyone would in this horrible place Jamie knew deep inside him He was outsider here in this place thinking to himself

"I must keep even these bad memories alive this place I have not been here long I am starting to get the feeling of losing my life outside these walls it's gets more cloudy and foggy each day these nightmares I keep having help bring forward that feeling I want out I was not supposed to be here I am not one of these workers who work away building and twisting cogs I will be a fighter I will be hopeful I will escape"

Jamie did get back to sleep, no more eventful things happened that night.