The bap startles Altman into stillness, and then fear keeps him compliant as he's hauled along. At least until the other says 'Show me.'

"No. No you're not supposed to see," he protests weakly, digging his heels in. It doesn't do much to slow their progress.

He assumes the not-stranger is after the Marker--that's what everyone wants, isn't it?--and the tunnel walls here are dark with Altman's scrawlings. What he wants to hide. Altman grabs at his aggressors arm, trying to dislodge him, slow him, anything.

"Skyfire, please."