Johann found the whole rattling car empty save one seat occupied by a girl about his age, whose face was hidden behind a large folding star chart, labeled MAP in one corner. He approached softly. There was something perhaps familiar about her.
"Mind if I sit here, Miss?" he asked. She looked up from the map, and Johann at once recognized her as his sister, and wondered how in the world he hadn't known who she was earlier. She smiled to see him, but he thought he saw her wiping a tear from her eye as turned to put down his coat. Taking the seat opposite her, and looking for a moment at the near-total desolation outside the train, punctuated only by a few swimming blue lamps, he asked, "Where did you get that map?"
"They gave it to me at the station, of course. Didn't they give you one too?" But Johann could not remember any station. In fact, he could not remember boarding the train at all.
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