A Train to Timbuktu

"The saffron-colored sky, laden with biting grains of sand, was beginning to yield to a more hospitable blue.

Silence prevailed in the harsh desert surroundings the stranded railway coach. The dusty and the violent north wind, which had been lashing the sides of the coach was abating gradually into a fresh breeze playing with the branches of a few date trees, several meters far from the coach. Manira opened the window of the toilet and looked outside at the empty silent desert. She felt herself as an outcast, in the middle of uncharted location, with nothing to see except rugged masses of marble rocks jetting out of the sands here and there, among gigantic sand dunes that extend till the edge of the towering mountains far in the horizon.

The conductor stepped down from the car followed by Baron. Both scanned the desert surrounding to explore if there is a sign of life around. But there was absolutely nothing except few rocky hills with the empty railway line coiling its way around the rocky hills till the horizon. Luckily the separated coach stopped few meters away from an area with scattered date trees, which broke the monotony of the one yellow color of sands and rocks.
?We are in deep, deep trouble. The conductor said looking at Baron, then he added with a tone of anger:
?It?s your fault that we are stranded here in the middle of nowhere. Had you listened to me, we would be in that traveling train. Not in this abandoned coach.
Infuriated by the conductor?s belligerent redundancy, Baron shouted:
?You have the audacity to twist facts? Why did you call us out of this coach? Admit it. You are part of it. Everything was preplanned, and you knew that this rear coach would be detached from the train. The plan is to get rid of the mentally ill children!.. Am I right? What kind of a brutal scheme to abandon those illusioned and indisposed children to perish in the desert? Was it because there is a deficit in the budget of the institution of the mentally ill? Is it devilish plan invented to waste and bury them in the desert and then to be declared as a train freak accident. A good pretext to get rid of them? You thought you fooled me? You think I believe your innocence?.. It is an obvious premeditated
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