"Lost on the Train: A Journey into the Unknown"

"Weird," Asher mumbled to himself as he ventured deeper into the train. The air was thick with a musty, rotten smell, and the darkness made it difficult to see.

He had checked half of the train, but there were no signs of any dead body. He retraced his steps and checked the exit. As he looked closer, he noticed the signs of bloody handprints and shoe marks. Previously, he hadn't noticed them due to all the plants, but now he looked carefully and saw faint marks of people trying to get off the train.

The train plunged deeper into the dense jungle, the trees towering over them like twisted monsters. The darkness was suffocating, and Asher felt like he was being swallowed by it. He sat down on a rusty seat, mentally exhausted with all the surprises of the day.

Asher's anxiety grew as the train continued to barrel forward with no signs of slowing down. Two hours had passed since he had boarded the train, yet it showed no intention of stopping. He tried to ease his mind by examining the route map, but the station names were all so foreign and unfamiliar to him that it seemed meaningless to even try to understand them. The large gaps between the dots on the map indicated that this was a long-haul train, which made sense considering the lengthy travel time.

"Happy Farm Station, Whispering Pines Station... what kind of places are these?" Asher muttered to himself, feeling increasingly unnerved by the bizarre names. He traced the route on the map all the way from the first station until he found the one where he had boarded, Lost Railways Station. As he scanned the map for the next stop, his eyes widened in disbelief.

"The next stop is... Macabre Elementary Station?" he repeated in a hushed tone, a shiver running down his spine. The name, though sounding relatively normal, stood out starkly from all the other odd and unsettling station names. Asher couldn't shake the feeling that something wasn't right about this train and its mysterious destinations.

"I'll just sit and wait for the next stop." Asher resigned himself to maintaining the status quo in case anything unexpected happened. He didn't realize that since arriving in this world, he had started talking to himself more often.

Despite experiencing tragedies, this was the first time he felt like he was the only person alive in the entire world, and unconsciously, it weighed heavily on him. In an attempt to combat the oppressive silence and loneliness that could drive him mad, Asher would occasionally talk to himself.

His voice echoed through the empty train carriage, disappearing as quickly as it sounded. Each time he spoke, he was met only with silence, which only served to make him feel worse.

Suddenly, the flickering fluorescent light caught his attention. It flickered twice, casting strange shadows across the carriage. Asher felt a chill run down his spine. He tried to shake off the feeling, but he couldn't help but feel like something was off. The silence was too much to bear, and he found himself talking to himself again.

"This is insane," he muttered, his voice barely audible over the sound of the train's wheels on the tracks. "I must be going crazy." But as the train continued on, with no signs of stopping, Asher couldn't shake the feeling that something was watching him. The hairs on the back of his neck stood on end, and he couldn't help but feel like he was being followed.

As he looked out the window to the next room, he froze.

There, staring back at him, was the pale white face of a woman with an eerie smile on her lips. Her eyes bore into him, unblinking. Behind her were two pale white faced children standing behind her, also smiling. They looked almost doll-like, with porcelain skin and lifeless eyes.

Asher's heart pounded in his chest as he quickly stood up, causing the lifeless eyes of the woman and children to follow him. His instincts screamed danger, and he ran with all his strength towards the back of the train. The carriage seemed endless, and every second felt like an eternity as he ran past rows of empty seats and flickering fluorescent lights. Finally, after what felt like an eternity, he stopped, 30 meters away from the woman and children.

His hands were shaking as he pulled out his sniper, aiming it directly at the woman's head. It was a surreal moment, and he felt like he was watching everything unfold from a distance. In reality, it had only been five seconds since he had first spotted the woman, and as Asher was blessed with the strength of ten men, it was an easy feat for him to cover that distance in such a short amount of time.

With cold sweat all over his body, Asher stood there, like a statue, aiming the sniper at the woman. He took deep breaths, trying to calm his racing heart and racing thoughts. "That woman is dangerous," he thought to himself, his mind working a mile a minute. "More dangerous than the big bugs I've had previously met."

The silence on the train was deafening, and the only sound he could hear was his own breathing. Asher wondered what he should do next, as he felt like he was in a situation that was beyond his control.