"A story." So it was going to hurt. He was trying to distract him. ...Which wasn't going to work if Sam kept thinking about this, okay, here we go, story. "I was someone's pet for a short while. - Real short while, mind you, two or three days, but I was. It was when I was about... sixteen. I'd only been on my own for a year. Was still figurin' out how I was gonna get by..."