Unstationed

Goner leaned out into the aisle, staring. "Hey Frank?"

Frank was looking in the other direction; Akimoto seemed troubled by something that Tatter had said to him. The big man was strange even by their standards. Suki knew the most about him, but she had been gone for so long...

"Did we pick up any other passengers at the last stop?" Goner asked.

Frank tried to remember... Things weren't always clear on the subway. "I don't think so... It was a long time back, wasn't it?"

He saw what had caught Goner's attention. People moving in the car ahead of theirs.

"Angst," Frank said calmly. The cheerleader was toying with her pom-poms while Aqua braided her pigtails. "Get your guns."