*Mark*
‘There’s a middle-aged couple on this train with a newborn,’ I hear a voice in my mind say. It’s the conductor on a train that left the station about twenty minutes before we got there. ‘Just doesn’t look right to me. They’re acting strange.’
‘I’ll be there in a few minutes!’ I answer back. ‘Just keep the train stopped, and tell them all it’s a mechanical issue, and you’ll be going on ahead shortly. Do you have guards on the train?’
‘Just a couple, Alpha,’ he replies, sounding a bit nervous. ‘They don’t look too threatening, but I’m not sure what might happen if they try to get off.’
‘Can’t you lock the doors?’ I ask him.
‘Well, it’s against railroad regulations to lock the doors on a train that’s fully stopped,’ he explains to me.
I grunt aloud, gaining the attention of the o
