As Kit had known Cinqueda, so did she know the two Compers who were apparently in command of the occupied Metro station: a slim scarecrow of a black man wearing a ragged "Native Washingtonian" tee-shirt under his US Army field jacket, and a bug-eyed ork who, unlike his cocommander found the weather too hot for even one layer above the waist, let alone two. The ork wore a blue Consie beret and scowled at the newcomers. The norm, however, seemed quite happy to see Kit.