by Shari » Tue Dec 20, 2016 10:16 pm
The train ride to Maldon was mostly uneventful, aside from a very rude ticket inspector assuming Shari wouldn't have a ticket. She very much enjoyed waving it in his face, leaning back into her seat with a smug smile on her face as he punched her ticket and handed it back to her. She spends the rest of the trip with her feet up on the seat across from her, staring out the window and watching the boring landscape of the English countryside glide past. Finally the train pulls into the small two platform station and she hops out, looking around. She's not sure what she expected, but somehow she thought a town with an University would be... well, not this. This is a small poodunk town on the coast. Closing her eyes she can even smell the vague salt-mixed-with-rotting-seafloor odor blowing in over the low tide in the distance. A bit of doubt creeps into her mind, but she'd made her choice when she decided to blow 19 Quids on this.
"Whelp, no point in buggering around." she tells herself. She reshoulders her backpack and walks in the vague direction of what she assumes is downtowm. Or what passes for it anyway.
((Open))