"Of course. How does the garden out back sound to you?"

They weren't going to be interrupted there, and Hikaru figures that he could always have somebody pop in really quick to get them both something to drink, and maybe some food.

At the end of it all, though, he wanted to leave the decision up to his companion of the moment. Awakenings had the tendency to be traumatic, and hers was pretty high up there on THAT scale.