*Flashback to 10 minutes earlier*
Dialing Yuri noona's number, I wait impatiently for her to pick up as I tap my index finger across the marbled top counter.
Eventually, Inevitably even, once she answers, I lay out my plan.
As I begin speaking, detailing the plan of action, I calmer as each second passes.
The entire matter, which had made me squirm from fright just a moment ago now feels as if it is in the palm of hands.
I can only attribute this new found confidence as coming from my belief in the people around me.
Both of which, I had all too few of in my previous life.
"Yuri-noona. Code Red. Pay attention. I'm about to be drugged.
A waiter has just been bribed to slip a substance into my drink.