Kai believed himself to be in Asbury Park. He had been warned by Kim Conley who he was planning to meet there in New Jersey that the area was too dangerous to sleep in outside. In addition to that, the first night he had at first assumed that it was merely dried saliva residue he had found on his face that next morning. It wasn’t until waking up in the midst of being assaulted he put two and two together about what must have happened the night before.