Hong Kong Young Writers Anthologies Fiction 3 2018 | Page 259

“What’s left to live for?”
“The possibility of having everything you can have in life is worth living for,” Payne said to the teenage
girl no older than sixteen as she was initiated to climb back down from the edge. “You’ll never know if you
don’t live once to taste the tinctures in life. Who knows, you even get an unexpected journey to the west.”
Payne took a glance at the golden hoop chained to his wrist. The corners of his eyes crinkled.