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Deadly Destination
A train trip of a lifetime…..Fiction, but what if?
It lay silent for a very long time, frozen in time and structure. Hidden from civilisation beneath the ice, covered in layers of bone-chilling snow. Its weapon was harmless. Unable to kill. A frozen assassin.
Years of changing weather patterns changed the killer. Like a hibernating bear, the deadly bacteria stretched and yawned back to life. Sneaking out. Leaking to the surface, looking for sustenance. A pale green living mass slithering across the icy surface, seeking, hunting, devouring any living being in exchange of energy. Its simple brain realising with deadly clarity it could no longer stay frozen. To continue living, it needed to thaw and live above the surface. Global climate changes were its saviour.
Deep in the Canadian glacial mountains, where only few humans would venture, it started its roar, building strength from every tiny frozen bacterial cell and slowly morphing into a living, multiplying green surface slime. A killer of all life on Earth.
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The six-carriage steam train left the station filled to the brim with tourists dressed in hiking gear, expensive cameras adorning their necks and carrying heavy backpacks. An advertised ‘Trip of a lifetime to spot the polar bear…
