Part I: THE NIGHTMARE

EVERYONE WAS THERE FOR JASON...

EVERYONE WAS HAPPY...

EVERYONE WAS GOING TO DIE.

FIRST THERE WAS RENEE'S GASP OF TERROR

AS SHE POINTED IN AWE AND AND FEAR.

THEN THERE WAS THE FIRST SIGHT

OF THE LANDSCAPE CLOSING IN ON ITSELF.

THE NOTHING HAD ESCAPED THE NEVERENDING STORY...

THE EARTH HAD RECLAIMED HER BOUNTY...

THE QUAKE OF DEATH HAD BEGUN!

IN ALL THE CONFUSION AND FEAR...

IN ALL THE HOPELESSNESS AND PERSONAL SACRIFICE...

IN ALL THE TIME THAT THE NATURAL WORLD HAD LEFT...

JASON WAS FILLED WITH DREAD.

HE LOST HIS LOVER,

HIS COWORKERS,

HIS FRIENDS,

MOST OF HIS FAMILY,

AND IN THE END...

HIS ABILITY TO REASON.

BUT SOMEHOW SANITY PREVAILED...

AND AS HE CONTINUED IN WHAT WAS SURE

TO BE HIS LAST JOURNEY...

HE HELD CLOSE TO A FAMILILIAR FRIEND

OF UNKNOWN KINDNESS AND UNDERSTANDING.

TOGETHER, THEY WATCHED AS THE LAST

OF THEIR COMPANIONS WERE SWEPT AWAY...

TO FEND FOR THEMSELVES.

AND IN THE END THEY LAUGHED AND CRIED

ABOUT THE THINGS THAT THEY HAD NOT...

AND WOULD NEVER EXPERIENCE.

WITH A FINAL SOB, SHE OFFERED HIM A DRINK...

AND THEN SHE WAS GONE AS WELL.

HE WANTED TO DIE TOO...

BUT NO MATTER HOW HARD HE TRIED...

HE COULDN'T STOP FIGHTING.

AND THEN HE HEARD IT:

THE TWILIGHT TRAIN!