"You are a very handsome boy," Jin agreed with a smile. "I used to be a model. Do you know what that is? It helped pay when I was just studying. Now I'm a doctor." Less pay, ironically. But he found the work a lot more fulfilling.

"I bet you could be a model too. Handsome Ten. I should show you off to my old agency some time." He dropped the chopped up chocolate into the milk and gestured to the drawer Ten was standing next to. "Can you give me a spoon from there?" Maybe if he just kept talking normally, Ten would drop the pretence of not understanding enough Korean.