Prompt: Character on a Bus

Sitting beside the window, looking out at the passing landscape, he was unshaven, yet dressed in a suit of a good cut. His hair was slicked back in the style of old gangsters, dark, with a pomade that infused the air around him with the scent of oranges and cardamom. He could have been on the set of a movie except for the crate next to him, which held a live rooster. The creature, oddly calm under the circumstances, occasionally made an abbreviated cock-a-doodle-doo. At these intrusions, the young man would turn from his vigil and make soft cooing sounds that seemed to transfix the captive once more.