Men are SUCH babies! Who would have thought that Dimitri and I could get into so many spats? OR so much trouble? The train started to wreck when we were on the baggage car, and only by using our wits and teamwork we made it through alive - who could've guessed that a Russian Conman and a Skinny Little Orphan could actually work together?
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Dimitri angerily sat beside Anya. She was so annoying!
With smart remarks abounding, they weren't getting along at all.
And what help was Vlad, with his chuckling as he forged the papers that
were SUPPOSED to have been done weeks ago??  After
incessant arguing, Anya went to sleep and Dimitri pouted across the car
from her. Vlad walked up and down the halls casually, checking for
guards and ticketmasters. An old couple was standing in the hallway
together. "Last month the papers were blue - but now they are red,"
the old man said to his wife. Vlad jumped! He'd forged the
papers in  blue!
He hurried into their train berth and thrust the papers frantically at Dimitri. "It's what I hate about this government - everything's in red!" Dimitri stood up, wide-eyed. "RED?!" "I propose we move to the baggage car quickly, before the guards come," Vlad advised. "I propose we get off this train!"  After
shoveling Vlad and Pooka off to the baggage car and getting smacked squarly
in the nose by Anya, they all found themselves in the cramped, unheated
car. "The baggage car?" Anya asked. "There wouldn't be anything
wrong with our travel papers, now would there, Maestro?" "Of COURSE
NOT, Your Grace," Dimitri said as  reassuringly
as he could muster. "I just hated to see you forced to mingle with all
those commoners and---AHHH!" A loud explosion jolted the train, sending
the threesome sprawling! Vlad's eyes widened in fear as he looked
out the back window. "What was that?!" Dimitri shouted angerily.
"I don't know," Vlad said in shock, "but there goes the dining car!"
After some investigating, it was soon decided that they had to jump.
But as Anya smartly pointed out, they were  on
the side of a cliff! After several other attempts at getting off,
including using dynamite supplied by Anya to uncouple the cars, their biggest
foe came: a cut off bridge! Dimitri grabbed a chain and anchor and hurriedly
got under the car. "Hand me the chain!" he called to Vlad. Shaking
with fright, Vlad fell into a box. Anya grabbed the chain and ran
over to the edge of the car, dangling it down. "Not you!" Dimitri
shouted angerily. "Vlad's busy at the moment," Anya said with a sardonic
grin. Dimitri grudgingly grabbed the  end
of the chain and wrapped it around the acle. But then, with a loud
crunch, a chunk of loose metal fell the car onto the track. "AH!"
Dimitri scramed. Anya clutched his arm. As she pulled him up,
the metal bounced off the track and sliced a nearby tree in two. Dimitri's
heart pounded as he held Anya. His eyes met hers and lingered for
a moment, then Anya found her voice. "And to think that could have
been you." She let him go. He rolled his eyes. "If we
live through this, remind me to  thank
you." This was no time for small talk. Ahead of
them, the bridge gave way to a deep gorge. He and Anya quickly pushed the chain and anchor over the side of the car and onto the track. Snap snap snap, past all of the railroad ties! Finally it caught the sixth and the train car turned dangerously on the side of the track. The three quickly grabbed their baggage and linked arms. "Well, this is our stop!" Anya cried. They jumped and landed in a nearby snow drift. They all watched in shock as the engine plunged over the broken bridge. Seconds later, it exploded into a fireball. Vlad lay in the snow, holding the whimpering Pooka in his arms. "Is everyone okay?" he finally asked. "I'm fine,"  Anya
said quietly. "Her grace is fine," Dimitri said grudgingly as he
stood up. "I may never walk again, but she's fine." He checked for broken
bones. "I hate trains. Remind me NEVER to get on the train again."
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