Yeah. Same for me, but it was basically languish in a shit pile or get out, so...

You do what you can do as a kid that no one takes seriously. [ Somehow he'd gotten the sense that they'd come from similar backgrounds... maybe it was the certain way they held themselves, maybe it was just... that they knew. There was a sense of a street kid to another one, even if they weren't strictly from the streets. Shino had told him enough to understand that, at the very least, he and the larger man were from the same circumstances.

Mika gave him the same vibe, and he feels pretty safe in assuming even with his little cryptic hints. ]

Don't think this is a place I necessarily wanted to end up in, really, but I've ended up in worse places so I can't bitch too much. It's not a prison where you're stuck in a cell at least.

[ Though the little snort he gives after seems to indicate he still counts it at least slightly like a prison. ]