Getting Settled
The Sleeper Car
Ari finds himself to his assigned sleeper car with 2 beds, one on the left and one on the right with wooden storage racks above and below the bed. In the center of the car, next to the window, and between the beds is a small light wooden table. A metal curtain rod on the window is bare. The beds are thin and very firm with metal beneath the bed pad. There are blankets in rack over the door. Sparse but much better than what coach would be for such a long train ride - almost 12 hours to Passage.
The wood and metal here shows years of use and abuse. Beneath a thick and newer coat of varnish you can see nicks and a slight darkened color from a fire of sorts. The metal pipes and girders are well painted and appear to have been painted over quite a few times. You can small a slight scent of a sweet alcohol and a cigar of sorts in the air. Very faint but there, none-the-less.
Silent Lucidity
Your mind wanders a bit and you find yourself in a lucid state as much of the last few weeks seem to have been - you 'see' 2 Audairan officers sitting in this room drinking the finest ale and discussing the logistics of the next drop point. They are dressed rough for their station, like a common Aundairan enlisted soldier, but they seem quite comfortable with it. The map that they are referencing seems a little too clear for day dreaming and drifting.
The map shows troops locations and a few other things which you are not sure what they represent around the Thaliost/Star Peaks/Aundair River region. You see the map for what seems like quite a while with one location on the map that stands out from the rest. It stands out not for any particular reason, but it does. A single dot what may be 10 miles into the Starpeaks from the Aundair River and does not appear to have strategic significance. It seems to have been a part of the original map that was just picked up and used for their logistics and does not bear significance for you.
The officers are discussing potential tactics. You do not hear there voices, but you do see them pointing and understand their intercourse. Officer One is suggesting the tactics that were used in the
Siege of Delta Point which was a very direct and bloody, but successful operation to return a strategic point near the Star Peaks and Aundair River from Thrane's hands. It was a direct throw-your-troops-at-em sort of siege. The other officer is suggesting a little magical tactical support and some stealth with the threat of a direct assault as a diversion.
They discuss it a little bit, then they argue about what they both find trivial logistics then the second officers' throat is cut and the body tossed out of the window of the moving train. Officer One smiles confidently and business like and in the depths of his open shirt you see what might be a hint of tatoo of sorts. You do not recognize it, but it is also pretty clear [
a black field with a crimson shining crystal ball and and eye in the center] . Their faces are never really seen - all but a blur.
Awakening
You come too as you find yourself nestled in the hard bed of the sleeper car. You hear the warning bell that you are coming to a stop. A few moments later you hear what is probably an attendant walking though and with a gruff and forceful saying "
Next stop - Passage.". The voice sounds familiar - most likely Carrig. The left side of you neck is a little sore from sleeping strangely and your suitcase is sitting upright on the center table.
[OOC: BTW, sometime soon this will stop happening to you - things happening and you not remembering! 
I have applied you knowledges to this scene and the dice were not nice to you! ]
