Your name please young lady the train attendant said with attitude of indifference as she curtsied with the utmost respect “holly valentine” she said as looked at the man’s glasses the man gave her a ticket supposedly to her destination Lockhart a Beautiful town and kingdom that at the moment was facing a crisis a political one that’s deciding the next in-line princess which she Terra Barron princess of Lockhart was part of.

Terra walked around looking for the train number on the ticket but was too worried about the riff-raff commoners that bumped into her.

She and him fell down together along with everything they held

“Owww the heck”

“Watch where you going” the man balked as quickly gathered everything together and just as quickly left.

“The heck was his deal he was the one who should’ve watched his step” she said now glaring at the man who just got on the train.

“Whatever” and she looked at her ticket train number which was number 413 she looked until she found it,had her ticket stamped, and got on the train.

The train inside looked fancy A normal thing for first class she sat down and thought of her predicament

Terra Barron (or her alias Holly Valentine) had a rough childhood being the third princess or so others called the forgotten princess so the possibility like being queen was a long shot but according to her letter she read before coming here.

The first Princess was assassinated with a poison tart The assailant is at large making the second princess next in line except based on a New Royal law such a circumstance like this if there are still multiple Royals around they are allowed to have equal representation until the noble faction decides on a candidate.

Terra was determined to take this shot perform well at the evaluation they’ll put her through she smiled as her eyes closed saving her energy so that when she gets to her destination she would have to use all her strength, little does she know she would but in another way altogether.

She was awoken by a roughly by a train attendant “all right end of the line”

She was groggy at first then saw it was dark out and not the same darkness of Lockharts scenery but of a unknown place “are we here?” she said.

The train attendant who looked older than the one she met earlier gave her a glare that matched her own crankiness “what do you mean are we here? you’re at Hellios the place on your ticket”

Her denying the reality of the situation shot back “no my ticket is to Lockhart I never even heard of a place name Helios”, this was partially false as she knew it was a place most people would not want to be in considering it was the place of a killer‘s hometown and a thieving and gambling paradise.

The old man took her ticket flip the back and matched his own official records “hmm this is funny but is your name Luke Sayre” he said with a questioning look.

“No my name is “Terr… “ she forgot her alias for a moment “Holly Valentine” she said now scared of what this could mean

OK young lady what I’m bout to tell you is something I never had happened in all my years riding the train, whatever happened that led to you switching tickets or something of that matter the main thing is that this train is not running now and will be running in the afternoon tomorrow due to maintenance because of some intern fucked up somewhere and didn’t check your ticket for you it is our fault that this happened so the next train back will be free of charge.

“Is there anyway you can take me to Lockhart tomorrow she said tears in her eyes”

“Not directly but you could go back the way you came from there and then go to Lockhart”.

She wiped her tears and held the tears that were coming out but said nothing the town looked like it had some history equal to royalty but it was also rough to look at.

“There should be an inn somewhere in that place over there” he pointed to a big house with the sign saying Gia inn.

Terra still frightened said nothing but walked out of the train towards the inn.

“Calm down Terra all I have to do is survive” her exhausted.