Digital Greed

"I don't doubt that - when you got nothing, of course you want to change that - I'd say people who start from nothing work much harder 'cause they already know what it's like to be at the bottom."

His own upbringing was hardly destitute - sure he struggled coming from a single parent family - but that hunger, that drive to rise from nothing - he knew that feeling.

"Humans are way scarier than Shadows, huh...? Man, do I even want to know sort of people you've come across...?" He knew there was corruption and abuse out in the world but the fact that someone could say with such confidence that humans were worse than actual monsters. "I...think I might take you up on that."

Maybe he did have a thing or two to learn from this guy.

he smiles, but there is a sadness on the edge of his mouth. Feeling like he had hidden a sad memory and unearth it with a drill hammer. Of course this child wouldn't know what loss had happened, and it was unfair to say it all over again.