The train whistled and bumped over the tracks while Icy slept. Her head was on her mother's lap, and I can assure you, I was most definitely with them. The train began to slow, and the mother woke the girl. She yawned, then got up and shook her head to
"brush" her hair. Then the two stood, and began to get their luggage from the seats; a man behind them was having a lot of trouble with his suitcase. Icy sat back in her seat and waited for when they could leave, and she backed up to see out the window.
Snow coated the forest like a heavy blanket, but the village paths were cleared, and the shops and houses had lights up. A giant christmas tree stood in the center of town, and people were laughing as they each stung up family christmas items. A little girl smiled sadly as she put up a frame that said R.I.P. with a picture of a puppy inside, tongue lolling. Icy grinned, and watched as a man argued with his friends about something. She was beginning to watch a poor shopkeeper, when all of a sudden she heard two screams and felt something wet splatter across my back. A man and a woman, from the sounds, were screaming, when the woman stopped abruptly. Icy whirled around and let out a scream of her own.
"Mama!" she shouted and sat there, eyes wide and glazed over. I reached my fingers for the mother while Death glided over her . . . The train was definitely not silent anymore. The man that had had trouble had accidentally whammed his suitcase into the back of the crouching woman's neck and severed it. She barely had time to scream before she died. Icy sobbed, the man sobbed, but Death and I worked without a whisper.