Lily Evans (![]() ![]() @ 2012-03-15 14:35:00 |
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To say she was not impressed with this new development was a vast understatement. The late night shaking had been bad, but the sudden plunge underwater had been worse. There'd been cows, and then there'd been fishes. If it had just been fishes -- miles upon miles of fish -- she wouldn't have minded. Being in the underwater environment, however ... she minded. She minded infinitely more when she recalled that one of the cars was made almost entirely of glass. Crackable, fragile glass. Of course she'd checked the network, and of course people had noticed, so that at least ruled out the idea it was simply a hallucination. Though it did make her wonder if that meant the hallucinations were done with. Maybe not though; she never could tell with this train. Maybe they'd be hallucinating while underwater, though she hoped not. She knew at least a few rooms had wound up with broken windows because of the hallucinations. Now, that could well be deadly. After Bobby had worked his own bit of magic (well, mutation, she supposed) on the room, Lily had gone over it with any and every charm she could think of to help reinforce the ice. She twitched every time she thought she heard something, and jumped the one time something creaked. It was nerve-wracking, honestly, and she couldn't understand how people couldn't see the deadly potential here. Even a broken window in a bedroom could rapidly flood the car it was in. That was less of a worry to her than the idea of the observation car caving in and flooding the entire train. She imagined the doors would hold for some of it, but what then? Would the train fix the windows but leave the water inside? Then they'd still be dealing with a flood ... though at least on a smaller scale than the entire ocean trying to fit into the car. She was honestly for the idea of stoning both sets of doors on either side of it and cutting off the car for the duration of the stay, but that did complicate matters for people stuck on one side or the other. She supposed they could have assigned people to side-along people from one side to the other, but that seemed to be a bit too much work at this stage. Maybe the others were right and the train wouldn't let the windows break, but she had some very sincere doubts on that front. Lily stood in the open door of the front end of the observation car, gazing along the pathway that led to the other door before she shifted her gaze along the curves and pillars of ice that were there in case the glass did break. That, at least, should hold up ... though she shivered as she wrapped one arm around her middle. She had little intention of crossing the car just now, but she'd be here to keep an eye on it and to make sure the spells were holding. |