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2026-06-28 18:05:33The overland crossing into the Ecotopia Corridor took eleven exhausting hours.
They went by regional rail—three separate train connections, two frantic platform transfers, and a two-hour delay at the Corenne interchange that Evelyn spent sitting on a wooden bench, nursing Serafine while memorizing surgical pharmacology formulas from a crumpled printout she kept in her jacket pocket.
The children were, against every mathematical probability, miraculously manageable. Cael slept with the disciplined, total efficiency of a tiny soldier, allocating his energy cycles precisely between feeds. Lyra sat by the glass, her small face pressed against the pane as her eyes tracked the gray factories of Solaria blurring into the green, high meadows of the alpine foothills. Remy made his vocal displeasure about the cramped second-class carriage known for twenty minutes, then promptly exhausted himself against Kai’s shoulder and snored for three hours.
Serafine didn't sleep at all. She lay in the center of the pram, her wide, dark blue eyes fixed on the ceiling vents of the train, occasionally letting out a short, rhythmic clicking sound that Kai had taken to calling her "system diagnostic."
At the first federal checkpoint, a border officer in a crisp blue uniform stepped into their compartment, his face pale with the exhaustion of a twelve-hour shift. He looked at the five crimson Mervane passports Evelyn handed him, then looked down at the four identical infants arranged like small packages across the seats.
"Purpose of travel, Dr. Voss?" he asked, his eyes lingering on her young face.
"A research fellowship at the Arandas Institute," Evelyn said, her voice perfectly calm as she handed over Dr. Chen Suyin's acceptance letter. The signature at the bottom was bold, and in the margin, the director had scribbled: An extraordinary analysis. Looking forward to your arrival.
The officer looked at the letter, then back at the four cots. "A research fellowship... with quadruplets?"
"They're very dedicated to my continuing education," Evelyn said with a small, flawless smile. "They don't like to miss a lecture."
The officer stared at her for three seconds, realized he didn't have the energy to unravel whatever domestic anomaly was sitting in front of him, and stamped the booklets with a heavy thwack.
At the final Ecotopia boundary line, forty minutes later, Serafine chose her moment. As the secondary customs inspector reached for their luggage tags, she opened her mouth and unleashed a wail of such pure, piercing, glass-shattering volume that the inspector’s ears visibly twitched. She didn't stop; she sustained the note for four solid minutes without taking a breath, her tiny face turning a deep, angry purple.
The inspector, looking completely horrified, threw the passports back into Evelyn’s lap and waved them through the gate with both hands just to make the sound stop.
The moment the train cleared the platform and clicked onto the Ecotopia rails, Serafine went completely silent. She turned her head, looked up at Kai, and blinked once.
"That was tactical," Kai said, adjusting his pack. "She did that on purpose."
"She's eleven weeks old, Kai," Evelyn said, leaning back against the seat, her muscles finally relaxing as the mountain air cleared the cabin. "She doesn't have an operational strategy."
Evelyn looked down at her daughter. Serafine was still staring at Kai, her small mouth curled into an expression of serene, absolute satisfaction.
"Actually," Evelyn murmured, a small, genuine laugh escaping her throat. "I take that back. Don't leave her alone with the keys."
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