"I don't like taking money from others," Shi replied, pressing the bill into Hunter's hand as he took the tea. "I'm really not hurt all that badly." Or I won't be for long.
"I know all about power vacuums. Take my home country. After the Great War things were never really the same there." The rise of communism had preceded his leaving. He loved his country, but the one he'd grown up in no longer existed. The world he'd grown up in no longer existed.