Stewart Kramer leant on the over track bridge
and waited for the Brisbane train to come into view. He contemplated the fierce Australian sun as it shimmered off the entwined silver rails on the track and tried not to think about other things he should have been doing instead of cleaning up after his late brother.
As a child he'd imagined he might work on the railway, anywhere away from Sean. Stewart was distracted by a commuter train that pulled in and then headed back into Sydney.
A swarm of passengers flowed around him as they crossed the coathanger shaped pedestrian bridge then surged down the stairs to road level.
Desiree's train had been delayed, luckily, because a tiny set of twins had put his own arrival back an hour while his team had worked to stabilise them in the unit. He had a gut feeling about the larger twin that he'd follow up if his registrar hadn't already, but his thoughts were interrupted by the loudspeaker warning of the Brisbane train's imp ...
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