Once doctor Hiroshi had stabilized Li Hung's condition, it took only a few hours before he had regained consciousness. Upon opening his eyes, he was greeted by the crying yet joyous face of his mother, his body felt especially sour, and his throat was in severe pain.
"My darling, are you okay?" Lei Fu fretted over him as though he were still a young child.
Holding his throat, he signed with is hands //water\\.
Seeing him rub at his throat, Lei Fu explained, "we had to call doctor Hiroshi, when we came in you were very pale and barely breathing, you don't understand how worried mother was" she tried to fight back her incoming tears.
Li Hung clenched the bedsheets, as a raging anger began to build-up inside him as he recalled what had happened.
