Smoke was issuing from the train windows. Bluish grey, slowly spiralling into the sky. It looked so innocent, friendly and unharming, but still he dared not approach it. The others were gathered nearby.
Soon it would be too late. The smoke mystified him. It neither looked nor smelled like ordinary smoke. It was more like light made liquid, og some kind of creamy gas. If something like that’d existed. It didn’t look like that kind of substance that’d kill a trainfull of people just like that. Or, maybe that was exactly how it was supposed to look, innocent romantic, mystical and mortifying all the same. Substances like that had some authority, it was something we both wanted and feared more than anything.
He couldn’t smell anything, but then he daren’t inhale as much as he’d like, he was still scared.
Even when the smoke spiralled upwards it didn’t seem to move. It was like one of these toys shaped like long spiralled sticks. You could hang it in your window, and when the wind blew it appeared to travel upwards. But, it didn’t move, it just turned. It was the same thing about the smoke, it was like an optic illusion.
It weightlessly creamed it’s way through the air. Through his mind. He became dizzy. At first he didn’t notice, but funny pictures started to form in his head. There were shapes and blurs, weird colours that followed odd smells and figures. Everything started to curl and swirl, but wait. Suddenly it alle felt familiar. At last.