The 11 : 14 to Station Zero
Overview
At 11:20 every night, Sora Mizuno locks the Lost and Found shutter at Amagiri Station. If a thing isn't in the bin by then, it isn't his problem.
A train comes in with one carriage too many, a rusted car that should have been scrapped long ago. It stays forty seconds and rolls back into the fog. Behind it walks a sleeping girl gripping a brass ticket, bright as new, for Kuroshio-Guchi, the station buried under the mountain in October 1988.
Sora is a provisional Level 1 Wayfinder. A lost thing in his bare hand pulls toward the last place someone set it down on purpose. This ticket hauls uphill into solid rock, and his right hand has started reaching for it on its own.
Kanae Ōshiro, voted off the Student Council for refusing to bury a missing 4,200 yen, counts and weighs anything within three meters. She gives Sora seven days before she reports the hand and the Registry takes his card and his window. Wataru Okabe has heard a diesel idling behind the dead siding by his uncle's boatyard. Neither of them will let him go north alone.
A tired man in a yellow helmet leaves his card at the window and asks what has come in from the north line. That night, someone tries Sora's locked door. Whatever his crew is taking out of the mountain, they are in a hurry.
In 1988 the last train backed out of Kuroshio-Guchi seconds before the roof came down, and a nineteen-year-old signalman wasn't on it. The ticket means to finish its trip, and it has chosen Sora's hand to carry it.
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Details
- ISBN-13: 9798167660694
- ISBN-10: 9798167660694
- Publisher: Independently Published
- Publish Date: November 2026
- Dimensions: 9 x 6 x 0.64 inches
- Shipping Weight: 0.9 pounds
- Page Count: 304
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