"Yeah. Was a helluva lot better than being on the street." Sure, being a cute lil' homeless kid got him a bit of sympathy (even if that meant tightwads still wouldn't give him any money), but man if there wasn't a whole bunch of creeps out there.

"Uh... Well I thought ya were somethin' like what I thought I was, an' you got pissed off by that an' things didn' get any better from there. Ended up with you sayin' you'd take one 'a my eyes out and me sayin' I'd bite yer nose off if ya tried." Yeah. He was real good at making friends, obviously. ...'cept for that one guy he was pretty sure had gray hair, if he hadn't been hallucinating that too. That bit was nice, but holy hell, some of the stuff that he'd thought'd happened with that guy were really fucked up. Why in the hell had he thought he saw someone melt?