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The two head back into the first car while remaining inside its coupling enclosure. The noise coming from the speeding train running over the rails is still loud, but not as deafening as it was outside. Maureen pulls up the text. It’s a multi-media text, meaning Morgan hasn’t sent a plain word text, but instead a video.
Turning the volume up all the way, she holds the phone so that both Sam and she can watch it at the same time. Morgan, the conductor, appears on the screen. He’s seated in the pilot’s seat before the instrument board. Judging by the stillness outside the windshield, he made the video while still parked in Albany. He smiles for the camera.
“By the time you see this video,” he says, calmly, almost pleasantly, “you’re minutes alive will be numbered. Everyone on board The
