Wanda said, "There is psychic energy on this train."
The napkin drifted to the table top. Matt and Kim could not believe what they had just seen. Kim just didn't know what to say or do. She found herself looking at the remaining piece, of the cheese stick on the other napkin. She watched as the cheese stick changed into a curved round shaped piece of cheese. She looked at Matt. He was looking at the cheese.
Now she had to speak. All she could say was the question, "What?"
Wanda answered, "The energy is more strong then you would expect."
Kim managed to ask, "What energy?"
Wanda, "The psychic energy that people have. I can sense it. Particular in Mapleville. That's why many Psychics are moving there. As they move there it becomes stronger. That's why I moved there."
Kim, "What has that to do with cheese?"
Wanda, "I really don't know. But it's known the energy can cause objects to change their shapes. Sometimes a psychic event is a warning of what's to come. I hope it's nothing to do with this train."
After this Kim and Wanda chatted a while, but not about the psychic energies. They completed their drinks and, with Matt, began their return to the second coach car from the engine. As they walked through the third coach car, they noticed a mother and daughter who were setting together. They were watching a black and white movie. Something that would have been made in the 30s. However they were watching on a modern flat screen device. The screen had a split cord going to two pair of earphones. The mother and daughter had their own earphones while sharing the picture.
After they arrived at their seats, the conductor announced the first stop will be Clumber Plains. The stop will be in three minutes. The passengers deboarding at Clumber Plains, should check above and below their seat to gather their possessions. The passengers going to Clumber Plains should go to the lower level of the third coach car from the engine. Kim watched as the pirate walked past her on his way to the third coach car. The black bag in his hand. The sack inside. The two cans and the spoon, inside the sack.
After an hour of traveling the conductor announced that the next stop will be Nashville and everybody going to Nashville should check around seats.
He also said, "There will be two doors open for leaving at Nashville. Nashville is the first smoke break. So whoever wants to leave the train for a while should go to the lower level of the fourth coach car from the front of the train. Stay around the door. The train will be leaving as soon as the new passengers have boarded."
Matt and Kim went to the fourth car and stood outside the train while the passengers boarded. There was a younger man, probably in his early twenties, talking with a small group of passengers about how he was in the army and had a fierce looking eagle tattoo on his back. He said his army unit symbol was a fierce looking bird. And his tattooed bird was fiercer then that.
A middle age man with another group about twenty feet away was listening. He walked over to the former army man and held out his hand and said, "I like to thank you for your service."
The former army man did not shake the other man's hand. Instead he said, "Don't thank me, I spend two years working in an office in Texas."
The middle age man return to his group. The Former army man continued talking, saying he has been out two years and has not been able to find a job in Texas. He said he grew up about 125 mile northeast of Cincinnati and he was going to Frankfort to look for a job. That he had passed through there once while he was in the army and thought he could find a job there.
Then the conductor shouted that the train was leaving and everybody should get onboard.
The train ride through north Tennessee was a pleasant journey. The train reached Kentucky. The clouds started moving. A rain storm was in the distance. Lighting blots were hitting the ground. The thunder was not heard as the distance storm approached. Suddenly the storm was on the train. The heavy rain, thunder, and lightning.
The storm caused a strange feeling in Wanda. Wanda's reaction was strange and frightening. She spoke to Kim, "I don't like this. This is not good."
Kim replied, "It's just a passing storm. Should go by soon. A quick moving storm. Should be over as quick as it arrived."
Wanda, with a removed look, said, "No it's the cheese, in the café car, prediction."
The train moved threw a thick woods and curved into a tunnel. It was black outside. Wanda and, Matt and Kim, sat waiting intensely to see the end of the tunnel. Finally there was a light and the train emerged into a rocky, treeless area with a creek of rushing water running beside the train. The rain continued. There was a bolt of lightning that hit the ground a quarter mile away. The clap of thunder reverberated in the train. Then it disappeared. Everyone looked around. Everything seemed ok. The rain continued. The thunder and lightning became more distant.
A conductor walked by. Wanda asked, "Where are we?"
The conductor replied, "We're going through Gopher pass."
Wanda, "Does it always rain like this. Cause the creek to rise like this. It's out of its banks."
The conductor, "There's a dam upstream about a half mile. When it rains a lot they let the water out. In a little bit will be going through another tunnel and will be out of the pass."
A lingering flash of lightning hit the ground about one half mile up the creek."
The clap of thunder was louder and different. The vibrations of the thunder persisted longer.
Wanda glared at the creek as water rushed by, "It's the dam. That's what it was, it's the dam."
Matt and Kim sat there stunned and speechless.
Wanda watched the creek waters rush above the banks. The train curved to the right and entered the second tunnel. The train curved to the left. The tunnel continued. The train continued on the curve.
Wanda looked into emptiness, and audible, under her breath, spoke, "Get off the train."
Kim looked through their car door to the first car. The passageway, between the cars, was filling with passengers. The aisle in the first car was filled with passengers pushing toward the back of the car. A conductor ran down the aisle towards the front car.
A young man, seated toward the front, said, "We’re getting off." and stood up.