He sits in the corner of the city square, arms wrapped around each other. He was born in 2014, "died" in 2029 - chose to be reborn into this world right before he passed on. He hates it here. He was told once before by some strange man with odd shades and who smelled like piss and old cum that he could have done better.
Between moments of hating where he is, he does wonder if he could do better.
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Sometimes he wanders from the city square to the Transient block. There, he encounters one of the women who the strange man drags around like a pet. He's seen so much violence in the past year he's been here that he barely flinches when she bashes a man over the head for looking at her wrong. The blonde woman glances over his head while hurrying towards one of the bars.
For a moment he falls in love and decides he wants to learn to fight.
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The woman's name is Yelena and sometimes she talks to him. Wary of anyone, he doesn't say much but listens. Half of what she says is lambasting the strange man, glaring at anyone who approaches her to talk about the strange man.
Eventually, he asks with the breaking voice of a teenager why she speaks to him.
She breathes a puff of cigarette smoke into his face and shrugs. "Because you can do better."