“You know Yin, this isn’t a very good place to be in hiding, everyone knows who the American foreigner is here. I feel it makes you even stand out because you’re so different from everyone,” Tyler said to him as they entered into his house. They all settled on the small mat in the middle of the room to continue their conversation.

“I didn’t come here to be in hiding,” Yin replied. “I can protect myself well enough in the open, if couldn’t, I’d have been dead like the others.”

Tyler and Greta glanced at each other.

“Then why did you come here?”

“To experience a whole new life. Being...