Compartment 9

This Sleeping Car connects to the Private Car and the Sleeping Car thread below. Rooms 1 - 4 are Single Cabins, 5 - 8 are Double Cabins, and 9 is a Cabin Suite with a double bed.
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France, 19:41

This Cabin Suite has two rooms connected together through the washroom. The first room contains a banquette sofa that can be unfolded into a bed, footstool, and table with a luggage rack containing two suitcases and a narrow wardrobe in one corner.

There is also a separate sleeping cabin with an upper and lower bed and a little more storage space with an additional luggage rack with another suitcase on top. The beds aren't terribly wide but which has expensive cotton sheets freshly pressed and a roll-like pillow. There is, naturally, a button that will summon the Cabin Steward as well as an emergency brake pull with a warning beneath that threatens an expensive fine if you are to pull it without good reason. There isn't much room in this compartment, especially with any hand luggage brought onboard, but it is beautiful. The room is somewhat larger than the Single Cabins through the absence of your own personal vanity but not by much.

Both of these rooms are connected by your own personal washroom that contains a sink beneath a mirror and it provides both hot and cold water, as well as containing a little cupboard underneath that provides a glimpse at the porcelain pipes as well as access to additional storage space. There is a luxurious towel hanging on the golden bar beneath the sink. There is a cupboard on the other side that contains necessary toiletries. The doors can be locked or unlocked on either side. Both are currently locked (unless you enter, in which case your side is currently unlocked).
The first room wardrobe contains,a men's and ladies hat box which contain hats and a puzzle-locked box with odd engravings.
Suitcase #1 in the first room contains,Dresses, beneath the dresses is a battered copy of The Well of Loneliness, Toiletries and A few collections of Dickinson poems
Suitcase #2 in the first room contains,men's clothing, shaving kit, and a small wooden box containing several gold coins inserted into a blue velvet backing.
The locked suitcase in the second bedroom contains,XXX.
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Lily skips into the compartment's first room and finally allows herself to look up, taking a second to straighten her hat. She falls back onto the sofa and dumps her sketchbook, pencils, and purse on the far end. "Our things are here," she says to Charles, restless fingers already fidgeting.
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Charles shivers as his cold body is embraced by the warmth coming from the train's heaters. It's nice and warm in here. Almost toasty in comparison to what it was like out there. "Can I trust you to have this room and sleep on the banquette or will I need to lay out here like a guard dog while you sleep on the bunks?"
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"Of course you can trust me!" Lily sits up and pouts at him. "I wouldn't dream of inviting trouble, and I don't need a guard dog. I can't imagine what I'd need guarding from." She chuckles strangely, now smirking as she stands.
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"I don't know, but there is a reason why I don't let you out of the house much. You do get some very peculiar notions about appropriate behaviour."
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The smirk disappears. Lily folds her arms and raises an eyebrow at him. "We've been by ourselves for a while, you know. I'm not the same girl I was when Mother was still around. I can be respectable if you can."
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France, 19:41

This Cabin Suite has two rooms connected together through the washroom. The first room contains a banquette sofa that can be unfolded into a bed, footstool, and table with a luggage rack containing two suitcases and a narrow wardrobe in one corner.

There is also a separate sleeping cabin with an upper and lower bed and a little more storage space with an additional luggage rack with another suitcase on top. The beds aren't terribly wide but which has expensive cotton sheets freshly pressed and a roll-like pillow. There is, naturally, a button that will summon the Cabin Steward as well as an emergency brake pull with a warning beneath that threatens an expensive fine if you are to pull it without good reason. There isn't much room in this compartment, especially with any hand luggage brought onboard, but it is beautiful. The room is somewhat larger than the Single Cabins through the absence of your own personal vanity but not by much.

Both of these rooms are connected by your own personal washroom that contains a sink beneath a mirror and it provides both hot and cold water, as well as containing a little cupboard underneath that provides a glimpse at the porcelain pipes as well as access to additional storage space. There is a luxurious towel hanging on the golden bar beneath the sink. There is a cupboard on the other side that contains necessary toiletries. The doors can be locked or unlocked on either side. Both are currently locked (unless you enter, in which case your side is currently unlocked).
The first room wardrobe contains,a men's and ladies hat box which contain hats and a puzzle-locked box with odd engravings.
Suitcase #1 in the first room contains,Dresses, beneath the dresses is a battered copy of The Well of Loneliness, Toiletries and A few collections of Dickinson poems
Suitcase #2 in the first room contains,men's clothing, shaving kit, and a small wooden box containing several gold coins inserted into a blue velvet backing.
The locked suitcase in the second bedroom contains,XXX.
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Charles smiles and forcibly takes her hand, lightly kissing the back of it. "Ah, my spirited little sister.... Very well. Let us adjourn to the Smoking Car and indulge in a few alcoholic beveriges. In celebration of your twenty first birthday tomorrow I will allow you to drink what you will though be mindful that you may suffer a hangover in the morning. I have a little gift for you tomorrow as well. Are you excited?"
OOC,I though I would go with the birthday situation from the last incarnation and as she's already twenty that would make tomorrow her twenty first birthday. I can scrap it if you don't like it.
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Lily nods vigorously, brightening up with a wide, pleasant smile. "Of course I am! Everything is exciting." She moves for the compartment door, tugging her brother's hand, then stops short and pulls her hat down over her eyes again. "Maybe you should guide me there? I don't want to catch a glimpse of any awful flyers."
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Charles opens the door and peers out down the corridor. "They've been taken down. Very good. I can't say as much about the other Sleeping Cars as well. You'll need to go through with your eyes shut." He takes her hand and guides her out into the corridor.

OOC: You may do the honours of posting in each one.
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Lily leans against the door to Compartment 9, squeezing her eyes shut and pressing a hand to her forehead. She shakes with a few tightly bottled sobs, then slides down to a sitting position and buries her face in her arms. The book in her hand drops to the ground.
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The carriage seems to rattle around, only emphasizing the silent contempt of the passengers. She is aware, naturally, that her brother would be having a good time and here she is ... divorcing herself from everyone else with not even her brother to blame.
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Lily spends a few moments weeping quietly and feeling sorry for herself, but eventually the desire to sit around and do nothing disappears. As the tears dry on her face, she considers going back out to the rest of the train, but decides she doesn't feel up to it just now. She picks The Royal Shade of Pale up off the floor, stands up, and gently sets it on the room's table. Then she takes her purse and heads to the compartment's washroom to wash her face and reapply her makeup.
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France, 23:15

This Cabin Suite has two rooms connected together through the washroom. The first room contains a banquette sofa that can be unfolded into a bed, footstool, and table with a luggage rack containing two suitcases and a narrow wardrobe in one corner.

There is also a separate sleeping cabin with an upper and lower bed and a little more storage space with an additional luggage rack with another suitcase on top. The beds aren't terribly wide but which has expensive cotton sheets freshly pressed and a roll-like pillow. There is, naturally, a button that will summon the Cabin Steward as well as an emergency brake pull with a warning beneath that threatens an expensive fine if you are to pull it without good reason. There isn't much room in this compartment, especially with any hand luggage brought onboard, but it is beautiful. The room is somewhat larger than the Single Cabins through the absence of your own personal vanity but not by much.

Both of these rooms are connected by your own personal washroom that contains a sink beneath a mirror and it provides both hot and cold water, as well as containing a little cupboard underneath that provides a glimpse at the porcelain pipes as well as access to additional storage space. There is a luxurious towel hanging on the golden bar beneath the sink. There is a cupboard on the other side that contains necessary toiletries. The doors can be locked or unlocked on either side. Both are currently locked (unless you enter, in which case your side is currently unlocked).
The first room wardrobe contains,a men's and ladies hat box which contain hats and a puzzle-locked box with odd engravings.
Suitcase #1 in the first room contains,Dresses, beneath the dresses is a battered copy of The Well of Loneliness, Toiletries and A few collections of Dickinson poems
Suitcase #2 in the first room contains,men's clothing, shaving kit, and a small wooden box containing several gold coins inserted into a blue velvet backing.
The locked suitcase in the second bedroom contains,XXX.
The washroom is small and cramped, the walls tightening around her, and the unsteady motion of the train throws off her hand while applying her makeup. There were bound to be plenty of delicate and worldly women capable of prettying up despite the roughness but it's a little tricky for her inexperienced hands. Still she has it done soon enough.
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Lily turns her head this way and that and makes faces at herself in the mirror, eventually making a judgment of "good enough." She heads back out to the room with the banquette, considers the door for a second, then shakes her head and sets her purse down next to The Royal Shade of Pale.

She takes the book and reclines on the banquette, intending to properly read at least a few pages.
Keeper,[i]Curious books for a curious man. What's so special about this one, and why me?[/i]
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In a Dark Time
By Theodore Roethke 1908–1963 Theodore Roethke
In a dark time, the eye begins to see,
I meet my shadow in the deepening shade;
I hear my echo in the echoing wood—
A lord of nature weeping to a tree.
I live between the heron and the wren,
Beasts of the hill and serpents of the den.

What’s madness but nobility of soul
At odds with circumstance? The day’s on fire!
I know the purity of pure despair,
My shadow pinned against a sweating wall.
That place among the rocks—is it a cave,
Or winding path? The edge is what I have.

A steady storm of correspondences!
A night flowing with birds, a ragged moon,
And in broad day the midnight come again!
A man goes far to find out what he is—
Death of the self in a long, tearless night,
All natural shapes blazing unnatural light.

Dark, dark my light, and darker my desire.
My soul, like some heat-maddened summer fly,
Keeps buzzing at the sill. Which I is I?
A fallen man, I climb out of my fear.
The mind enters itself, and God the mind,
And one is One, free in the tearing wind.
OOC,http://www.poetryfoundation.org/poem/172120 Would you like to read another?
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Lily turns to the next poem.
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The City
Edward Roby

It was golden and splendid,
That City of light;
A vision suspended
In deeps of the night;
A region of wonder and glory, whose temples were marble and white.

I remember the season
It dawn'd on my gaze;
The mad time of unreason,
The brain-numbing days
When Winter, white-sheeted and ghastly, stalks onward to torture and craze.

More lovely than Zion
It shone in the sky
When the beams of Orion
Beclouded my eye,
Bringing sleep that was filled with dim mem'ries of moments obscure and gone by.

Its mansions were stately,
With carvings made fair,
Each rising sedately
On terraces rare,
And the gardens were fragrant and bright with strange miracles blossoming there.

The avenues lur'd me
With vistas sublime;
Tall arches assur'd me
That once on a time
I had wander'd in rapture beneath them, and bask'd in the Halcyon clime.

On the plazas were standing
A sculptur'd array;
Long bearded, commanding,
rave men in their day—
But one stood dismantled and broken, its bearded face battered away.

In that city effulgent
No mortal I saw,
But my fancy, indulgent
To memory's law,
Linger'd long on the forms in the plazas, and eyed their stone features with
awe.

I fann'd the faint ember
That glow'd in my mind,
And strove to remember
The aeons behind;
To rove thro' infinity freely, and visit the past unconfin'd.

Then the horrible warning
Upon my soul sped
Like the ominous morning
That rises in red,
And in panic I flew from the knowledge of terrors forgotten and dead.
OOC,H.P. Lovecraft's "The City". Would you like to read another poem?
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Perhaps it is some effect of seeing the bizarre flyers, or just a sudden stroke of inspiration, but Lily grabs for her sketchbook and a pencil. She is not a poet by any means, and her structure is shaky at best:

deep in the fog i lay dreaming
wandering lost in the mist that swallows screaming
children of mothers who cry for their daughters
in this place, this life all life slaughters

and i looked into the mirror and i found myself on the other side
escorted by fallen angels and the souls of men who've died
over and over as they fight and they cry
out for salvation as the years pass them by

and they cut into my life and they took all that they could
my body bears the scar of waiting longer than one should
for three days and three nights i dreamed that i was free
but in the dream it was merely hours for me


"Well," whispers Lily, speaking to the empty air of the compartment, "I think it's time I stopped dwelling. If only I could paint on this godforsaken train; idle hands are the Devil's playthings..." She snaps both books shut, places them on the table, retrieves her purse, and turns to the compartment door.

And doesn't open it.
Keeper,[i]Oh, come[/i] on. [i]She's probably 'scandalizing the train' right now, there's nothing to be afraid of.[/i]
OOC,[url=http://kadael.tumblr.com/post/72877110763/you-know-you-have-a-problem-when-you-write-poetry]I got carried away[/url]
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Lily remembers a little songbird she received when she was little. Her brother, to prove a point, spoke to her at length about how the bird was trapped inside it because people loved to watch pretty things sing but that it knew the world out there was too scary for it and so it wouldn't escape even if it got the chance. He then opened the cage door and, sure enough, the bird refused to fly. This was the world it knew. This what all that existed to it. It couldn't even fathom freedom.
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Lily throws the compartment door open and leaps out into the corridor.
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