[ Deflection is a really good defence though maybe the flip from embarrassing and maybe a little bit of a sore spot straight into something genuinely traumatic is a bit much. Still it is more useful. ]

Yep! Monster kidnapping incident, but no, nothing like this place, it was a toxic, grimy, wet, vine covered hell version of my hometown. [ or was it hellish Hawkins because he wanted to go home almost as much as Hawkins has always been hellish on either side? Either way nobody needs to psychoanalyse that right now. ]

It had no food, no tech, nothing was clean ever and there was a really gross flower-faced monster that was going after people to use as baby monster incubators. [ it does not sound less horrifying when spoken about with the same tone one would use to talk about anything totally regular ] I got out but unless my mom finds a way to bust in here and drag me out again I have no idea how to leave here.