Run: 2026-10-27-01M5YG0VBXKQMB7R2KPCAMCXKV

The midnight train hissed into Bellweather Station, where rain silvered the platform and Detective Mara Venn found nobody waiting there. Inside the locked waiting room, a single lamp burned above the ticket clerk's desk, though the clerk himself had vanished. On the tracks, the stationmaster lay beneath a tarpaulin, one polished shoe exposed and his silver whistle nowhere in sight. Mara knelt, touched his wrist, and found no pulse; a narrow wound beneath his ribs had soaked his linen shirt. She opened the fabric carefully and discovered a stopped watch, its cracked crystal holding a black feather against the hands. Behind her, the waiting room door unlocked with a delicate click, and someone began whistling the stationmaster's favorite tune softly. She recognized the melody instantly; her missing sister had hummed it on the night she vanished, exactly twenty years earlier. Mara rose without turning, one hand inside her coat, as the whistling faltered and the platform lights died at once.