Dustin was just digging himself a hole. Really. He didn't understand this younger generation at all. "So I'm weird then?" That was true, but it didn't mean Shi liked it being pointed out. He really did try to a degree to blend in, he just did it badly.
Things were so much simpler in China. Village life never changed. He'd had his home, his family, his lover. Life had been perfect once. Now it was just and endless purgatory. "I'm just here to get takeout. Alley's just faster."