A Soldier’s Duty on the Orient Express

Alright… storytime. My name is Colonel John Arbuthnot. I’m British, a former army officer,

and I was a passenger on the Orient Express the night Samuel Ratchett was murdered. Years before that

train ever stopped in the snow, my life was tied to the Armstrong family.

I served with Colonel Armstrong, a good man, the kind you’d trust with your life.

When his daughter Daisy Armstrong was kidnapped and murdered, it destroyed his

family. His wife died of grief. He took his own life soon after.

And the man responsible—Ratchett—walked free because of money and power. I watched justice fail people who

deserved better. When I boarded the Orient Express, I already knew Ratchett was on that train.