Reasonable doubt
Read from the bottom!!! (Images made with AI) It befell upon a day of ordinary semblance, when the world wore the dull mask of routine, that a solitary traveler boarded a train bound for labor’s tireless halls. The iron carriage groaned as it bore its human cargo forward, slicing through landscapes of muted gray, where even the sky seemed reluctant to bear witness to mortal affairs. Within this moving vessel of fate, there sat our unnamed observer—an eye without anchor, a mind drifting idly through the river of passing hours. Yet destiny, ever fond of intrusion, does not respect the quietude of mundane things. For forsooth, there entered two men whose presence did disturb the fabric of silence itself. One was corpulent, heavy of frame and voice alike, as though he carried within him not merely flesh but secrets fattened by repetition. The other was lean, sharp-featured, and pale, like a question yet unanswered, or a blade not yet drawn from its sheath. Together they sat behind the obse...