The Cold Trail

Last Chapter - A New Hope: Searching for a Lost Father

After a small detour to pack a change of clothes, Shelly led her brother Leo and their new friend Haruhi to the train station. hey arrived just in time to catch the last train departing for Treetop Town that day and, hopefully, a lead as to the whereabouts of Haruhi's father. It was a fairly uneventful journey for the most part, with Shelly drawing in her a sketchbook and Leo watching the sun slowly falling on the horizon. Nobody said much, as Haruhi was to wrapped up in imagining what they might fined and the siblings where to polite to interrupt her.

In fact, the only noise they heard other than the rattling of the train wheels was the snoring of their new companion, who for the most part had slept the whole journey away. She was older than the three of them, and had silky white hair tied back in a pony tail with a dark grey news cap pulled down over her eyes. She only smiled and nodded when the met her at the train station, and nodded off before any introductions could be made, but after a while Shelly looked up from her drawing and said. "So... I know it's not exactly a normal introduction, but this is Isa. She's Jaina's sister."