Leaving Jaela to care for Sergeant Vilroy, you jump back into the skycoach and fly with all haste to Terminus. You find a dock to tether to and run down the stairs into Terminus station. It is packed, with people covering the platform and trains starting to charge up. You don't know whether Garra has boarded the train or not yet so look around and when you don't see her go to the ticket booth to buy some tickets. The bureaucrat behnd the counter is slow moving and doesn't remember seeing a half ogre. You look for first class tickets, but the price is astounding. You show your writ to the bureaucrat but she does not seem that impressed and states you will still need to buy a ticket if you want to board the train and the watch can claim the money back through properly filed claim forms. You hear "ALL ABOARD". You move to enter the train without a ticket, but the conductor stops you. The conductor does seem to take note of the writ, but states that he does not have the authority to let you on the train without conferring with the driver. He asks you to wait and moves into the train. You stand on the platform waiting, but then the train starts to move. You go to step onto the train, but are distracted by some rough looking men who grab at you roughly, "you ain't goin nowhere bub", one of them says to Ashara. Dresk manages to dodge the grabbing thugs and leaps onboard the train, jumping into a cabin where a distracted looking guard yells "You shouldn't be in here". He looks at the carriage and he is obviously in a security area where something valuable is held. Ashara summons a pillar of fire which wounds one of the thugs badly, but suddenly the station erupts as the crowd scrambles to get away from the danger. Thugs grab Dusty and Topsy and start beating them. Another thug, seeing the damage that Ashara has caused draws a scimitar and slashes across her arm, wounding her badly. Chronk picks up the thug moving towards him at throws him at the train. The thug hits the side and slides down the gap between train and platform. An awful sound can be heard as the thug is smeared across the platform and ground below. Ashara then jumps onto the train, landing further back as the train has already moved considerably ahead. Meanwhile Dresk has backed away from the conductor and stepped through to the next carriage back. A conductor starts in surprise, "You shouldn't get on the train while it is moving sir, most unsafe. Where is your ticket?". Dresk tries to explain that he does not have a ticket and is on watch business, but is unable to produce a writ as he was the only person not there when Vilroy was handing them out. Instead he tries to be intimidating, "I am on watch business, and my companions who can produce writs will be here soon. In the meantime you will let me pass unless you want to be responsible for a dangerous criminal escaping. GET OUT OF MY WAY". The conductor steps back and then reaches up quickly, pulling a panic cord. An alarm sounds throughout the train and it starts to rapidly decelerate. He then draws a truncheon and as Dresk tries to push past he strikes him on the head. Meanwhile Chronk, Dusty and Topsy have managed to escape the thugs trying to hold them back, two more lying smeared under the train. They manage to make their way into carriages even further back. Dresk barges back into the next carriage where another conductor tries to tussle with him. As Dresk barges past Ashara sees him and calls to the conductor. "He is with me, look, I have a writ". The conductor calms down immediately, "Why are you here", he says. "We are looking for a half ogre, a criminal by the name of Garra", Ashara says to the conductor, "Do you know where this person might be?". The conductor points at the door of one of the first class compartments further down the carriage, "there", he says. The door is slightly ajar, but as you look in that direction it slams. Dresk and Ashara stand on either side of the door, then Dresk bursts through the door. He is immediately hit by a small arrow from a sprite in the room, but other than that the room is empty. A large window stands open and Dresk climbs quickly out, pulling himself onto the top of the train. He sees a large half-ogre, holding a small ancient chest, quickly running on top of the carriages back towards the train platform. The train has nearly stopped and Garra unless stopped will soon be able to escape. He gives chase. At this moment Dusty and Topsy are at the front of a carriage much further back, with Chronk even further behind. They hear a thump above them as Garra leaps onto their carriage. This carriage has a line of small windows in the ceiling and they can see underneath Garra as she runs . Not a pleasant sight. Dusty and Topsy shoot at Garra as she passes. Topsy's firebolt shatters one of the windows and pierces Garra. Dusty's arrow bounces off a frame and lands back in the carriage. Chronk reaches up, smashing his hands through the small windows and rips the metal roof apart. He then pulls himself through the hole and onto the top of the carriage and joins Dresk in chasing Garra. Dusty gives Topsy a leg up through the small window, but he is too large to fit so runs back to Chronks hole and pulls himself through. The train has now stopped so Ashara simply runs back to where the train is still at the platform and jumps out. Garra keeps running, getting hit by a volley of weapons. She leaps from the train and onto the platform, but he is not fast enough. A well placed firebolt hits her as she jumps. She is jolted to the side and lands badly, smashing her head into the platform. She dies almost instantly and the chest scatters from her grasp along the platform. By this time the platform is swarming with guards. "GET BACK", Dusty yells as he pulls out his writ, "that device is extremely dangerous and we need to remove it immediately". His bluff is successful and the guards back away from the chest. "You clean up here", says Dusty, "and Vilroy will report once we have disposed of this device". The guards confusion gives you enough time to grab the chest and get out of there. You run back to the skycoach and fly back towards Jaela's house.
