What the Rail Boys say is
what Rail Boys have always said: That someplace, out, out down the line,
there’s a place that’s different. Better. That the tracks will lead them there,
to that untouched corner or abandoned station and that they’ll know it when
they see it. That when the train goes rumbling by their utopia, they’ll
recognize they’ve found it and that they’re there.
When they’re there, then the Rail Boys will leap out of their traveling closets and they’ll take up a new, perhaps more sedentary life in the perfect place they’ll have found.
They say meanwhile, we’ll all still be huddled and hiding our lives away back here.
Back here, in the City of the Nephilim.
