"Want to hear a story?" asked Huang Xiao Wen as he sat back on his couch and looked at me.
I wanted to say no. I just wanted to know the bare minimum about what I needed to do to get out of Camp Hell 2.0, but I also knew I couldn't say that.
He did technically save me from being raped by the swamp creature.
I nodded my head and got comfortable. Something told me that this would take a while.
"I won't bore you with the details, but let's say that there was a little boy who was trying very hard to get killed by the time he turned seven. He had a big mouth and absolutely nothing to back it up with," he chuckled lightly, and even I had to smile as I thought about him as a kid.
"I—he got into a fight with some adults over something so stupid that I can't even remember it now. Just as his little life flashed before his eyes, a man came out of the shadows and saved me." He looked off in the distance as if reliving that moment.
