She was standing in the middle of a completely round field, the only connection to the rest of the world was a road that seemed to float in the air, on the edges of this field there was nothing, or rather there was a steep slope going down, but you couldn't see that from the middle of the field, so there was an urge pulling closer to the edge.
As she started walking she realized how good the grass felt against her bare feet, it was softer than anything she had felt before, darker than anything she had seen before, and it reminded her of home. She stopped for a second, she missed home.
It seemed that the sun was setting too fast, like Olivie was in double speed. As she reached the ledge, that was only separated from the drop down by some rocks, it was already darker, and when she looked over those rocks her head started spinning, it was a long drop down.
There was something in the distance that Olivie hadn't noticed before, some kind of a building or maybe even two. She was trying to squirm her eyes to focus more, but was startled by a sudden noise. It was a buzzing sound that became louder by the second, it seemed like a train was coming at her. She turned around to face what was coming and it turned out to be men and women riding some weird two wheeled machines that resembled motorcycles remotely, but were not touching ground rather than floating above it.
They stopped not far from Olivie.
-- There is nobody here, the birds said there were intruders. - A short woman with a high pitched voice said. The skinnier man right next to her gave her a sideways look.
--No, they said that the energy waves are behaving strangely, whatever that means... Nobody can get here anyways without going over the cloud-bridge, and that means going through us. You would have to be crazy to try and cross the gorge. And it is getting dark, no one can find their way here then.
--It doesn't change anything, orders are orders, those bird-people are smarter than most of us, so, must've been somt'in. Lets make a round over the ledge, see what those graduates can do with the flier's.- The third man, that was pure muscle, and looked too big for his flying motorcycle, threw a hand at the group behind the three, looking like students of sort. They immediately switched on the flying machines again, this time with a bright light that accompanied the sound. Olivie was not only instantly blinded, she felt something cold hit her, which resulted in her flying against those rocks that were the only thing protecting anybody from falling down. The last thing she saw before blacking out was two crocked moons above her head, shining darkly, not like they are supposed to.
The conductor was sure now, the young woman in the train was definitely sleeping, she had slept through the trains whistle and the brakes that had been a pain during this ride, so the ticket controller had to move from his seat and wake the late passenger up, there was always one that slept through the stop, but the breaks, that was bad, the controller had seen a guy almost hit his head against the next seat. That' s what you get by employing newbies and putting them on duty the first day. The small man was moving towards the last passenger in the wagon, and nodding to himself, he had a lump in his right leg so it was a slow move.
Halfway to the young woman, another train blew the whistle and this time the woman jumped up, a little bit startled. The controller sighed.
--Do you need some help ma'am? - he was still quite a distance away and wasn't going to waste any time if the passenger was ready to move by herself which seemed the case.
--No, thank you, I' m terribly sorry.- Olivie picked up her bag and moved towards the exit in a quick manner.
The controllers mood instantly changed and he even caught himself singing while going through the rest of the wagons, that is until he found a forgotten bag under one of the seats, it was barely poking out so he taught about ignoring it for a second, but decided against it, nobody deserves to find out that their bag is in another country, even the ones that forget said bag, so he picked it up, and later on dropped it by the local law enforcement office.
