The train went up spiraling tracks that wrapped around a tall mountain. The Conductor, Elsa, and Honeymarren had finally decided to head back to the passenger car, and were walking on top of the coal car.

"Watch your step! Watch your step, it's tricky walking up here! It's mighty slick, mighty slick I tell you-" Elsa started slipping, but The Conductor grabbed her hand and pulled her back on. "Oh! There ya go! What did I tell ya?! What did I tell ya? Years ago, on my first Christmas Eve run, I was up on the roof makin' my rounds, when I slipped on the ice myself! I reached out for a hand-on, but it broke off! I slid and fell! And yet, I did not fall off this train!"

The train reached the top of the mountain and went onto a really tall suspension bridge that went above the clouds.

"Someone saved you?" Asked Honeymarren.

"Or some thing."

"An angel!"

"Maybe."

They climbed down the back of the coal car, standing right outside the first of several passenger cars.

"Well, what did he look like? Did you see him?" Asked Elsa.

"No ma'am! But sometimes, seeing is believing. And sometimes, the most real things in the world are the things we can't see."

They entered a passenger car full of dinged-up, abandoned toys.

"Ah, the forsaken, and the abandoned. Mind your step now. These poor toys have suffered enough." Said The Conductor as he stepped over a few that were on the floor. "Being left to rust and decay in the back alleys and vacant lots of the world."

"What are they all doing here?" Asked Elsa.

"It's a new concept the boss came up with. Instead of being thrown away, they're collected, refurbished. He calls it eh, "re-bicycling", something like that."

"Good thing Anna's not here to see this. I don't think she'd like seeing them like this."

"I know I don't. It makes me sad seeing toys that were treated this way." Said Honeymarren.

"These hopelessly entangled string puppets and marionettes pose a particular problem. We found that the nimble fingers of our work force here at the North Pole are best suited for working out those knots and tangles."

As The Conductor and Honeymarren approached the exit, Elsa stopped to observe some of the puppets hanging from the ceiling. When she heard the door close ahead of her, she faced forward and saw that they were already gone.

"Too slow, again? Way to go, Elsa." She said as she started forward, but she stopped in her tracks when she felt something land on her shoulder.

"You are just like me, my friend. A Scrooge!"

Elsa gasped and jumped back in surprise, nearly falling into one of the seats as she saw an Ebenezer Scrooge puppet moving and talking on its own.

"Ebenezer Scrooge! North Pole, Santa Claus, this train, it's all a bunch of humbug!"

Elsa looked up at the ceiling, but no one was there to be moving it or speaking for it.

"How are you talking to me? You're not real!"

"Oh, yeah? I know what you are! You're a doubter!"

Panicking, Elsa made a run for the exit, pushing other puppets out of the way.

"A doubter, you don't believe! You're a doubter, you don't believe!"

Elsa was out of that train car and back in the primary passenger car in less than ten seconds. She rested with her hands pressed against the back sliding door, trying to slow her breathing.

"That's probably gonna give me nightmares."

As Elsa finally slowed her breathing rate, she turned around to look in the passenger car. To her, it felt like it had been hours since she was last in there before heading out to return Honeymarren's ticket. The other kid passengers were laughing and chatting like nothing had happened, which kind of annoyed her deep down. Having had more than her fair share of excitement, Elsa looked for Honeymarren so she could just relax and talk with her for the rest of the way, but then Ryder walked in front of her.

"Hey! You missed it! We rode down some really sharp hills! We all almost flew out of our seats! And then we were on what looked like a frozen lake! But I know it was just an optical illusion caused by moonlight and atmosphere. He said the train was actually on the ice!" Elsa looked over his shoulder and saw that Honeymarren was in the caboose. "But I said that was impossible, because you can't put a train track-"

"Ryder, you talk too much! And for the record, Honeymarren and I didn't miss anything! We experienced it all at the very front of the train! And yes, the train was actually on the ice! Now if you'll excuse me, I don't want any more excitement until we get to the North Pole!" Said Elsa as she walked around him and went for the sliding door.

"Hey, where are you going now?!"

Elsa closed the door behind her without bothering to answer. Ryder groaned in annoyance as he collapsed into his seat.

"Why do girls have to be so weird?"