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Talk to nicely.

Crenshaw, you copy?

I call over the comms.

My headset strapped down tight to my head as the wind shear nearly rips me from my precarious position on the rear ladder welded to car 14.

Crenshaw! I got you, Bix. Crenshaw finally responds.

What's the situation? The situation is fucked, man, I say, swinging out just enough to risk a glance at the side of the car.

And the trouble that's called me out here in the middle of the cool late spring night,

I should be asleep, gently rocked by the constant movement of the train that never stops.

Breaks are locked. The car could throw a wheel at any second.

That ain't good, Crenshaw says,

stating the obvious. Can you fix it? I swing back behind the car just as a thick branch from an oak

goes flying past, or we go flying past it, since the train is moving at almost 300 miles per hour.

The station track maintenance crews are supposed to patrol and keep branches like that

clear, so I don't suddenly get knocked to my death as I attempt to make repairs at full speed.

And making repairs at full speed is what I do.

Not because I like it, but because, as I mentioned, the train never stops. Never. I really don't

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