Chapter 3: Conversations.

The Zootopia-Express-9H00

The next morning Benjamin Michel entered compartment 6 carrying a plate containing 2 carrots which have the same size with a fork and a knife, accompanied by a cup of tea all placed on a silver tray. He approached the lower bunk where the young detective is reading a detective novel by Agatha Cheetah The candied fruit box, handing him the tray while the young sheep continued to sleep.
Benjamin Michel: Hello Miss Poirot.
Judy Poirot: Hello Mr. Michel
Benjamin Michel: Here is your breakfast, Mr. Bouc explained to the Chef that you like 2 carrots that are the same size with a cup of lime tea, and also told me that he will travel in the car to Primateville. So leaving you her compartment while Miss Bellwether travels with Miss Gazelle, she said she has nothing against having company.
Judy Poirot: Thank you M Michel and also thank M Bouc.
Benjamin Michel: I would.
At this moment the driver cheetah left the compartment, thus leaving Judy to have her breakfast calmly.

The train entered a tunnel and began to enter the tropical regions. Three hours later after getting dressed in a light blue skirt with little white dots and a matching jacket Judy went to the Wagon-restaurant to go to lunch, when she entered she noticed that a place was free at the table where his friend Nicholas Bouc is and decided to take the place. Before arriving there, a ram in a gray suit who is at the same table as Mr. Finnick and Mr. Koslov stopped him.
Samuel Doug: Excuse me miss, would you like to have a drink with us?
Judy Poirot: Sorry sir, but I have an appointment with the train manager.



Judy sits across from Nicholas at a table for two. At this time, a lion dressed as a waiter approached their table ready to receive their orders.
Nicholas Bouc: Ah, there you are, Lucien!
Lucien Lionheart: Want to drink something before ordering?
Judy Poirot: A carrot cocktail please.
Nicholas Bouc: And for me it will be a blueberry-whiskey please.
Lucien Lionheart: Noted, I'll bring it to you right away!
Lucien then went to the bar and prepared the 2 drinks.
Meanwhile Judy and Nicholas chatted calmly while watching all the Zootopia-Express passengers sitting at each table looking at the menu or eating their meals.
Nicholas Bouc: Isn't it nice to travel with all these mammals of different species which belong to several classes, which have nothing in common except to stay under my roof for three days to go to different places and who will never meet again.
Judy Poirot: I have to admit it's nice indeed, I think we could write a novel about it.
At this time, Lucien comes back with two goblets on a tray containing an orange liquid and a blue liquid and presents them to the second client.
Lucien Lionheart: There you have it for Miss a carrot cocktail and for Mr. A blueberry-whisky!
Nicholas Bouc: Thank you Lionheart.
Lucien Lionheart: Have you made your choice?



Judy Poirot: No, none of us have chosen yet, give us 5 minutes.
Lucien Lionheart: Good miss.
Lucien walks away while Judy looks at the menu. Nicholas is about to read it when he hears the female otter sitting at the table next to them, saying her menu choice as well as that of the shrew sitting across from her on a small table while addressing Lionheart. .
The Otter: His highness will take a bowl of green caterpillar soup accompanied by some very juicy larvae to add flavor and well-dried chilopoda, all simmered for 25 minutes, and for me it will be the fish with small vegetables, but the salmonette will be replaced by a salmon, the tomatoes with a zucchini, the rapeseed oil with a drizzle of melted butter, all cooked for 40 minutes.
Lucien Lionheart: Good ma'am.
Nicholas Bouc: Excuse me Lionheart, but I heard the way she changed the dish and I think it looks very good, so I'll take the same.
Lucien Lionheart: Very well and for you miss?
Judy Poirot: For me it will be the potato salad without the herring.
Lucien Lionheart: Noted.
Lucien finished taking notes in his notebook before heading to the kitchen.
Nicholas Bouc: I admit that it's a great place to write a novel while traveling on a train with all these people.
Judy started to smile.
Judy Poirot: Perhaps a romance novel between a young woman with a sleeper manager?
Nicholas began to blush.
Nicholas Bouc: Keep me out of this, and what makes you think that?
Judy Poirot: Well when you heard the otter's command for this shrew that looks like royalty since she called it "Highness". It looks like you're in love with her.
Nicholas Bouc: Well the one thing I like in this world is blueberries. However, if I wanted to be rich, I would aim for a lot of money to marry Princess Dragomiroff and I could receive good meals by following the advice of this otter who serves as her maid, Mrs. Otterton. But unfortunately she is a shrew and I who follow a fox could not share anything with her. On the other hand we have this pretty arctic vixen, the countess Andrenyi, but she forms a very beautiful couple with this rabbit in the black suit, the count Andrenyi, if I want to marry him I imagine that I will have to fight a duel with him .
Judy Poirot: That's a great title for our novel "Duel at the Zootopia-Express"! However, I find that Miss Gazelle forms a beautiful couple with this buffalo.
Nicholas Bouc: You must be talking about Colonel John Bogo, but what makes you think he is in a relationship with Miss Gazelle?
Judy Poirot: Well I caught them on the ferry and they looked like they were close.
Nicholas Bouc: If you say so. And for the villain of the story, Mr. Doug would do very well, I think he has a cold and severe air with everyone.
Judy Poirot: It's true that he can have a bad temper sometimes.
Nicholas Bouc: If we need typewriter ribbon, we won't run out because we, Mr. Hardman, this chubby fox who is a typewriter ribbon salesman.
At this time, Lucien returns to their table bringing Princess Dragomiroff's green caterpillar soup, two plates of fish with vegetables and a plate of potato salad without herring.
Lucien Lionheart: For His Highness the green caterpillar soup, for Mademoiselle Poirot the potato salad without herring, and for Madame Otterton and Monsieur Bouc, the fish with vegetables.
Nicholas Bouc: Thank you Lionheart and give all my compliments to Mr. Jumbeaux.
Lucien Lionheart: I wouldn't miss it, and then Klaus is a real cordon bleu in the kitchen.
Lucien returned to the kitchen. And Judy and Nicholas admired their well-prepared meals.
Judy Poirot: Well that all sounds good. We should start right away.
Nicholas Bouc: And let's toast this trip.
At this point Judy and Nicholas raise their glasses and clink glasses saying "To our trip on the Zootopia-Express!"

Around 7:00 p.m. dusk began to fall and the Zootopia-Express stopped at the Tropical-city station for a few moments.
Judy got off the train to get some fresh air while other mammals came out to smoke like Colonel Bogo with his pipe or Mr. Hardman with his cigarette.
At that moment Judy heard a voice behind her back "Did you enjoy your date with the manager of a sleeping car company Miss Poirot?"
Judy turned around and saw Mr. Doug with a cigar in his mouth.
Samuel Doug: My secretary Mr. Finnick told me you were the greatest detective in the world.
Judy Poirot: And he told you true sir.
Samuel Doug: Perfect then I have a job for you. You see I'm a businessman who sells high value antiques, rugs or vases, and then some buyers notice that what I sold them aren't that old, but it's not my fault that what I'm selling to them isn't what they thought they were buying.
Judy Poirot: And what am I supposed to do for you?
Samuel Doug: Well I've made enemies in this world, and since some business in Reptileville I've started getting threatening letters, surely Komodo dragons are animals with a reputation for not being nice people. So I would like you to keep me safe and get as much information as you can about all the passengers on this train.
You will start right away and rest assured, you will be well paid.
Judy Poirot: That's a pretty good offer Mr. Doug.
Mr. Doug began to feel reassured until Judy answered him.
Judy Poirot: I decline it Mr. Doug.
Samuel Doug: Uh sorry did you say?
Judy Poirot: I said I decline it.
Samuel Doug: Maybe I wasn't clear enough, but on this train there is someone out to get me!
Judy Poirot: When you deal with unpleasant people, you take the consequences.
Samuel Doug: It's true that I may be an unlovable person myself, but I'm far from a coward.
At this moment Mr. Doug pulled a revolver from the pocket of his gray jacket with his right paw while with the other he tapped his cigar thus letting fall a little ash.
Samuel Doug: And I imagine you have a price just like anyone else in this world. $20,000 in cash?
Judy Poirot: I have raised enough money during my last investigations.
Samuel Doug: $40,000?
Judy Poirot: Do not insist Mr. Doug my answer is always no, I am not a bodyguard. My work begins when the crime has been committed and I dislike your character more.
Samuel Doug: So you're abandoning me.
At this time, the controller Benjamin Michel arrived at the door of the Zootropolis car.
Benjamin Michel: Miss Poirot your new compartment is ready you are in compartment 1.
Judy Poirot: Thank you very much Mr. Michel and thank Mr. Bouc for me.
Benjamin Michel: It's as if it were done.
Michel went back inside the Zootropolis car, Judy got ready to follow him. But she turned to face Doug one last time telling him "This conversation is over!"
Judy reentered the wagon, while Doug growled angrily letting out a cloud of smoke from his mouth before stubbing out his cigar on the floor.

For the recipe of fish at littles vegetables, I'm inspired of the receipe grilled fish at Gepetto from the cook book: Disney enchanted recipe by Thibaud Villanova that I have modificated.
Zootopia characters belong at Disney and The murder on Orient Express is created by Agatha Christie and the picture belong at KendallCollins.