"..."
"..."
"...What?"
"What do you mean what?" replied Rai, to the awkward silence subtly broken by the sounds of railroad tracks and his echoing voice in the darkness. Despite the shadows, he could sense her anxiety as he stared at her hidden face.
"Yes, I'm mad. But at... more at myself." stated Karla.
"As long as it wasn't completely my fault, I can tell you to just suck it up and wait." responded Rai.
"Wanna jump off?" she asked, ignoring Rai's comment.
"There's no room to land in this tunnel!"
"How the hell would you know? It's pitch black!" remarked Karla.
"Not so much anymore, look ahead." he said, too exhausted to point. After taking a ride through the longest train tunnel in Latrona, Rai covered his eyes as the sun shone through. Aggravated with the blindness the sun gave him, he figured that there was nothing special to see in the horizon. But that was only until his eyelids revealed him the world for the first time in his life.

Morning broke, and at the sight of the wide, open plains, Rai's eyes widened as he stood up slowly and looked into the distant world to his side as it passed him by. This world, this landscape that he'd never seen before was something as if from a dream to him. In the eyes of a being who's lived secluded in the confines of his own hometown for years, it's as if a fantasy world of green plains, mountains, and forests beyond him came to life in a moving portrait. A portrait painted only by a god or otherworldly being, Rai thought. He stood on the roof, not making a sound, hypnotized by the vastness and mystery of the world around him. As any adolescent would think, the entire world consists of the area around them only; they do not yet realize how many hundreds of millions of people inhabit this world. At yet, when the day comes that reality hits them, be it softly with mercy or harshly with force, they begin to see themselves as someone so much smaller. In his immersion into the mystic beyond, Karla could be heard in incomprehensible mutterings in the back of his mind. Unbeknownst to her, however,  this vision of the world around him, from a point where he could stare miles and miles into the distance, had changed the way he looks into life's grand stage. But just as soon as this heavenly landscape which entranced him arrived before him, it was stolen away by a new one: a sea of blue.
"It's... the ocean..." he thought to himself. "Wait,  the ocean?" As Rai looked below, he could see that the train was being upheld by a single bridge, a strong and lengthy bridge of tracks that stretched from the corner of Bayden's continent to the point of land leading to Rudanios, the largest continent in the world.
"Of course, I remember now... Bayden's train, the Ninety-First, is the only train that crosses across the sea to Rudanios. Rai, did you know that was our last chance to jump off this train before hitting the sea?" Karla asked.
"No... why didn't you say anything?"
"I did! But you looked like you were dreaming when you were gazing over the horizon, and you didn't hear a single word I said. Are you alright?"
"Yeah..." he answered, then paused. Taking a deep breath, he could feel the scent of the salty sea climbing into his nose as he saw the land get smaller and smaller behind them. "This is a really big world, isn't it?"
"It sure is." replied Karla as she looked ahead, kneeling. Because the train was wide, there wasn't a chance of them falling over. The tracks were loud, and the wind was a gentle brush, making it easy for them to talk without being heard by any passengers inside. Having lost their chance to jump off the train before it led into the sea, the two were now thinking about the possible consequences of their actions.
"Are you worried?" Rai asked the distracted Karla. She looked to the side with a look of concern painted over her face in a calm red. "You can try to hide it, but I know you're stressing yourself out."
"Why were they after me, Rai? Even before I confronted them, they were waiting for me all day... why didn't we just go home? All I wanted to know was why my father had to be murdered, and now we're stuck on a train heading to all the way to Rudanios... I don't think I can handle being here." she vented aloud.
"Hey, what's with you? You're the one who's always ready to kick out the next guy in your path. And here you are moping on a puny train ride?" he replied, with Karla not moving back. "As the daughter of someone like Solomon, you--"
"They killed him, Rai." she stated, looking into his eyes while hers will filled with confusion. "Those are the people that killed him! At first, when I came to Bayden, I thought that it'd be easy to confront them because of all this anger burning inside me, that rush of adrenaline. But... when I was there, right next to them, as they looked right into me, I felt a fear..." she said weakly. "It looks like when it comes down to it, I'm a weakling still, aren't I? I'm only pushy to you..."
"Looks like you learned a little something about yourself. Hey, come on now! I don't think anybody would be able to stand up to the people who started something like a murder against your own family. Don't beat yourself up over it; you barely found the time to recollect yourself" he said. After a long hour alone on the roof, the two talked contently of their own home life back in Otana. Are the citizens worried about us? Is there anyone looking for us? Then there was their own needs to be fulfilled as well. When are we going to eat? We've had nothing since lunch at Bayden... is there a city close? And in the back of their own heads, they considered their own experiences up until this point. Rai thought on how big the world really was, and Karla indulged herself as to how to avoid getting caught on this train.
"It's a strange feeling... I'd never thought I'd be hanging around with YOU this much in a single day." said Karla.
"Well excuse me! I could just jump off right now, it's no big deal."
"Don't be stupid... I enjoy your company, actually..."
"Sure, I'm going to believe that after you considered ditching me last night?" Rai asked, crawling a little closer and thumping his feet on the roof. Within the interior of the fifth car, a few passengers looked up and wondered what could be making a rumble in the middle of the sea, in the middle of nowhere.
"Hey! Stop making so much noise!"
"What?"
"Shh!" she hushed as she put her ear to the car roof and covered her other. From the inside, there was somewhat alarmed but comprehendible talking.

"...id you hear...?"
"..op of the... here?"
"Cri... eck it at the next... rteen minutes."
"...row... please? I can't st... your... ..."

As the voices faded, Karla rose up and saw that there was a small mound of land staring at them in the distance. A conductor was apparently going to check the roof when they got to a more stable wind later where there was actual land beneath them. She looked at Rai with a little more determination in her blue eyes.
"Wha- oh no, you're NOT going to jump right when we get to land. Do you see the land from here? It's too jagged to jump on!"
"There's a stop directly after we hit land. What do you expect we do?"
"Even so, there's no way we can get off this train without attracting any attention from the passengers all gawking out of their windows all day." responded Rai.
"Well... then..." she fidgeted. Then looking behind Rai, there was the last car. Although there wasn't a convenient place to hide, there was the small given space in between the last two cars.
"...No." he argued.
"Yes!" said Karla in a loud whisper, walking gingerly toward the next car as to not attract attention. Pulling Rai's wrist, they both started walking and were breaking at the thought of making too much suspicious noise. Tipping, toeing, avoiding the train trolleys rowing, they got to the crevice and somehow squeezed in before as the train made it to the land. Pressing themselves between the two trolleys, they looked down and saw sea turn to land.
"You've got to be out of your mi--"
"Oy! Is there but a soul who patters at the roof of our humble transportation?" riddled a voice, of the man who desired to seek the sounds above. "Ah... naught but the tricks of the windy Asheri and her pixies. That, or the minds of the passengers be one claw cut short of a beast!" the assistant beckoned as he entered again. As Rai looked towards Karla's side, they ended up getting pressed closer together due to the slowing speed of the train. In an awkward closeness, Rai could see on the corner of her shoulder a few people passing their sight swiftly.
"Oh my-- get up! Up there, now!" he called, breaking from their moment's embrace.
"What the hell is wrong with you NOW?" she whined, getting back on top of the car.
"People saw us... er, are seeing us!"
"Hey, Rai. behind you; the train's stopping!"
"Dammit! How are we going to..."
"Just get completely flat on the roof and don't move!" demanded Karla as they both got back to the top of the train once again.

As the train makes a stop at one locale, and the assistant request to search the train top to bottom as it may possibly be one of the trains that may be housing Rai and Karla. The engineer states that he's on a tight schedule and that they can make a check at the next stop; no one that's in the train is leaving anyways, so they keep it quiet and decide that that's fine.
"At your word, we'll give this dandy ride a brisk but thorough search as the train makes her way across the Laran River. You have my word!" he said. The train continued its journey, Rai and Karla still yet remaining unnoticed.
"Are we really going to ride this thing until we get somewhere new or what?" ask Rai.
"Well, I don't see how we're going to get off this train without attracting too much attention." she answered.
"So we're trapped... on a train? This is stupid, why is it that all your bright ideas have to be so damn inconvenient?" he complained.
"Hey. Would you rather be running for your life or peacefully sit around up here safely?" Karla wrapped her arms around her legs as she sat on the roof, feeling the wind.
"I guess there's not much we can do... but if we don't get off soon, we're going to be way too far to get home on foot."
"You'll live."
"Seriously!" exclaimed Rai. "The longer we wait, the farther we're getting from home!"
"..." she closed her eyes while trying to drown him out. "We'll figure something out." she opened her eyes again and turned her head. "Hey.... isn't it nice to at least be outside? I really don't feel like going home right now anyway. This train can lead me as far as it wants..." she said distantly to Rai who, in turn, looked around at the nearby mountains.
"What's this, all a sudden? Now you don't even care what happens?" he asked, looking in the same direction as Karla. Taking a little more thought into it, he tried to imagine how it must have been affecting her, the way life just rushed into her face in the past weekend alone. "...Alright," he said. "We'll keep going until you feel like your god above tells you it's safe to get off." He laid back and rests on the train face-up.

As she looked ahead, she found herself hearing the sounds of a river nearby.
"Hey Rai... stand up." she requested as she stood up herself. "Look at the river... " she said in a daze. Looking into the corner of her eye, she saw the train was about to pass the large waterfall that led into a deep pond below.
"Yeah... it's pretty calming." he replied.
"Rai..."
"What?"
"You know that god you just mentioned not even a moment ago?" she asked.
"What about it?"
"It's calling!" she said as she violently grabbed Rai and jumped off the train. She had timed it so that they would fall with the gentle waterfall and into the Laran River's mouth as it swallowed them and their yelling in. People did look to their side and see two figures falling from the train at a glance, but there was no way of catching up with them. As Rai struggled to rise to the surface, he thought only one thing:

"I don't know what's going to kill me first anymore: The Beata or The Karla."