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Rain went to the front of the car and picked up one of the boxes nestled in the corner. She peeked inside to make sure the little critter was still alive before walking over to Belladonna and handing it to her. "Here you go! I think he's one of the nicer ones." Some of them had a nasty habit of biting but she kept that tidbit of information to herself.

She pulled out one of the Peppermint Points and looked at it. "You know, I really have no idea what these are for. It's strange that we were told to give them out but were given no other information. It's very mysterious. There will be a lot of these given out during the Battleship game along with a couple silver pumpkin seeds and some Venus Flycats." Cautiously, she licked the Peppermint Point. She couldn't tell if it actually tasted like peppermint. She wiped it off and stuck it back into her pocket.

"Cats are really nice, I bet you'll have a lot of fun," Alwine said to the witch. "I have a cat... well, it's more like she has me. She's really sweet, though."

Alwine struggled, kicking her legs as she tried to pry her butt out of the vice-grip that was a train seat.

"I love your dress too..." she replied. "I wonder if it gets stuck as easily as this one, though."

"This has been bugging me and I'm just going to come right out and say it," Rain started, looking directly at the Alwine, or at least staring where a head should be. "I'm sorry if this is rude or forward, but where is your head? How.. do you eat? Do you even eat? How are you speaking?" She tried to say it in as nice a way as possible as she was genuinely curious. If she didn't find out, it would bother her for the entire train ride. It was equal parts freaky and amazing.

The conversation about cats was right up Belladonna's alley, so much so that she kind of forgot to try to pry Alwine out of her seat.
"I have a cat named Binx! He talks." Many cats in Halloweentown talked, but Belladonna felt it made him extra special. "13?! Wooooow. That's a lot Jack-b!" She was now saying his name with the same inflection should have said "Jackie" or "Jacky", the 'b' taking the 'y' sound. To her it sounded more than absolutely adorable. Of course, he already had Zwei (who received a pet anytime Belladonna even ventured near him) and Belladonna absolutely loved him so surely the rest of Jack's friends would be just as lovely!

And then Rain was suddenly asking Alwine why she didn't have a head and it was an altogether good question, for Belladonna had wanted to ask as well but didn't want to seem rude. Not that Rain was being rude... She was just forward, and very Rain-like.

"You're stuck too?" She inquired of Bartholomew, moving away from Alwine to inspect him as well and totally invading his personal space by trying to pull him from his chair by hand.

"No it's really," Bartholomew started, before finding his hand abducted and the rest of him hauled upright. "alright," he finished, desperation touching the word.

Now he was standing up. And apparently expected to help with something.

This was the direct opposite of snoozing, napping, or dozing.

"Thanks," he said, not meaning it.

Alwine reached out for Bartholomew to help her up.

"Now that you're up, could you please help me? I'm really sorry to ask, really, I just... I can't get up, and my legs are starting to fall asleep."

She looked over at Rain. "I've heard that brains are chewy... I guess I should ask you if that's true. If you don't mind me asking, I mean... are brains chewy?"