Our Journey III: The Night Train North

A stolen letter, a stopped train, and one long night that changes everything.

Part III of Our Journey. Previously, a brass compass that always points to the harbour led you to Mira and Leo in Port Aster. Now the three of you take the night train north to Mira's first exhibition, until Leo's grandfather's letter about the family boatyard disappears in a tunnel and a storm stops the train in the mountains. Question a tired conductor, a street musician, a nervous businessman and a kind grandmother. Compare clues, explain your reasoning, help passengers when the lights fail, and open your heart to Leo or Mira in the dining car. Three endings.

ภาคสามของ Our Journey ก่อนหน้านี้ เข็มทิศทองเหลืองที่ชี้ไปทางท่าเรือเสมอได้พาคุณมาพบมีราและลีโอที่พอร์ตแอสเตอร์ คราวนี้คุณทั้งสามขึ้นรถไฟกลางคืนมุ่งขึ้นเหนือเพื่อไปงานนิทรรศการครั้งแรกของมีรา จนกระทั่งจดหมายของคุณปู่ลีโอเรื่องอู่ต่อเรือของครอบครัวหายไปในอุโมงค์ และพายุทำให้รถไฟต้องจอดนิ่งกลางหุบเขา สอบถามพนักงานตรวจตั๋วที่เหนื่อยล้า นักดนตรีเปิดหมวก นักธุรกิจที่ลุกลี้ลุกลน และคุณยายใจดี เปรียบเทียบเบาะแส อธิบายเหตุผลของคุณ ช่วยผู้โดยสารตอนไฟดับ และเปิดใจกับลีโอหรือมีราในตู้เสบียง มีสามฉากจบให้เลือก

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Mira and Leo's travel companion, and the night train's detective

Find Leo's stolen letter before dawn: question four passengers, compare clues, explain your reasoning, help people through a blackout, and decide whether the thief meets justice or mercy.

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Scene 01

Rain on the glass roof

Previously in Our Journey: a brass compass that always points to the harbour led you into the lives of Mira and Leo. Tonight, rain drums on the old glass roof of Port Aster Station. The 9:40 night train north reaches the mountain town in the morning, and Mira's first exhibition opens there tomorrow evening. Mira holds a black portfolio against her chest. Leo carries a worn canvas bag and checks its inside pocket again and again. In your pocket, the compass needle turns towards the harbour, as if it is saying goodbye.

Scene 02

The empty frame

In your compartment, Mira opens the portfolio on her knees. Inside are black-and-white prints of Port Aster: the orchard park in the rain, the cafés at night, the harbour control tower under the stars. Her late brother started this series. The last frame is empty, just a white card in his handwriting: 'Dawn over the northern pass.' He always planned to take that picture from this train, but he never got the chance. Mira wants to take it for him at sunrise. Across the corridor, a man in a grey coat watches the portfolio, then looks up at Leo's bag on the luggage rack.

Scene 03

Music in the corridor

In the swaying corridor, a young street musician with silver hair plays a slow tune on her violin. Her name is Juno, and her open case holds a few coins and a sticker from the Port Aster harbour market. A grandmother with a knitting basket, Mrs Finch, presses a pair of red woollen gloves into Juno's hands. 'Your fingers are like ice, dear.' Near the door, the man in the grey coat whispers into his phone: 'Yes. It's on the train.' When he sees you, he hangs up fast. The conductor, Mr Bell, yawns as he checks your tickets. 'Long tunnel at eleven,' he says. 'The lights always flicker in there.'

Useful expressions

English you can actually say

01I would like to help you carry your portfolio safely onto the train.
02Could you tell us why that old bag is so important tonight, Leo?
03You could take a photo of the young violinist playing in the corridor.
04Let's take a portrait of the grandmother knitting with red wool next door.
05We should follow the man in the grey coat into the corridor.

Story vocabulary

Words you meet in context

glass roof: หลังคากระจก
night train: รถไฟกลางคืน
exhibition: นิทรรศการ
portfolio: แฟ้มผลงาน
compass: เข็มทิศ
print: ภาพที่อัดออกมา
series: ชุดภาพ
frame: เฟรม / กรอบภาพ

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