A quiet child whose lifelong fascination with locomotives becomes a kind of devotion. From her bedroom walls covered in timetables and ticket stubs to the hours spent standing by the tracks in any weather, she watches trains come and go with a tenderness she can’t fully explain. She knows only that each one carries a mystery, of places she’s never seen, people she’ll never meet. One day, without warning, she arrives at the station not to watch but to board, suitcase in hand. And when the town asks where she’s going, she simply smiles and says, “I’ll know when I get there.”

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