Gabriel’s face turned pale. The smiles and grins of the 3 men faded quickly when Gabriel’s face suddenly got a dead serious expression. On a voice tone nobody expected he snapped a question “how could this have happened?”. The conductor answered slightly amused but careful: “well this happened before, its when those bastards change the departure table to soon… some people that arrive early get on the wrong train…”.
Silence covered them, with a straight face Gabriel was looking into the floor somewhat lost. The silence was broken when he suddenly raised his head: “whats the next City?” One of the 2 guys that pulled him inside answered: “Its Rainsville… East Train Station” Gabriel’s eyes filled with hope… finally fate was on his side for once… “great” answered Gabriel. Then the conductor looked at him and nodded in disagreement ” kid your train left 10 minutes after ours… it has a shorter rout to Rainsville, and it heads for the West Train Station we arrive only 4 minutes ahead of it… there is no way you can cross the whole city in 4 min”.
With a sly smile on his face Gabriel looked the conductor in the eye… “Watch me.”
