The narrator tells us that he's been keeping a "distance from violence" for a long time. He's worried that his boss is in danger, but he doesn't want to get in any more trouble. He tells the narrator to stop talking about violence and to just shut up. He wants to know if the attackers were just after his money. The narrator says that's not the case, and he wants to make sure that the attackers are just trying to get his money back. He begs the attackers to stop acting like they're the ones who made him feel this way. He asks the attacker to stop saying things like "never" and "suck it up." The narrator asks if the attacker is in love with him. The attacker says that he is, and the narrator is confused. He tries to figure out what the heck is going on. He says he was in the region for business, but didn't tell anyone about it because he was worried about his boss's safety. He also says that if he'd known he was going to be meeting his boss, he would have brought him a souvenir. He wonders if he made the attacker nervous, but the narrator points out that he wasn't wrong, and that the attacker shouldn't have been so nervous. But the narrator says he had no idea he was