"Is it close enough to commute?"

He thinks for a moment.

"It should be about an hour to an hour and a half, depending on traffic."

"Then I might stay there when Ned has long shifts but I'll probably prefer to go back and forth."

He nods.

"I would suggest you not do any work on unconfined skips outside of the house, since there are some skips whose attention is drawn by people thinking about them. You may be immune to this, but we can't be sure."

"I will leave the work at Dr. Presper's house."

"Thanks."

He writes down the address to the house and the code to the alarm system on another napkin and passes it over. 

"You'll need to change this and reactive the defense system when you get there."

"Thank you."

"How much risk are you willing to take on? Should I limit the skips I send you to Euclid and safe?"

"I feel like the classification system, while useful for some purposes, does not necessarily capture my risk tolerance. My understanding is that if I repaired the mulched chair it would proceed to be uncontainably Keter in its quest to be sat on, which simply isn't very threatening."

He nods. 

"Can you describe how much risk you are willing to accept?"

"I value my personal safety, and Ned's, highly - I also have parents but they live overseas, which might matter for some skips - but I'm willing to compromise that especially to work on anything I may have a unique advantage at."

He nods.

"How do you balance that against skips that are personally risky to study but are also likely to be a personal threat to you and your family eventually, if they are not dealt with?"

"I'll take the long view."

"We definitely are putting our full resources towards combatting skips that are likely to be a wide scale threat. We are reasonably likely to find a solution without your assistance. I don't want to make it sound like this is all on your shoulders. If you don't want to risk your personal safety or only want to risk it if there's an imminent large scale threat, we will understand."

"If you have a death rate in excess of one percent on a project, my unique properties aren't useful, and there's other stuff I could be working on, let's table those for now."

He nods. 

"I'll have those delivered to Dr. Presper's house unless you have another preference."

"That makes sense to me."

"Is there anything else you'd like to ask me before I go?"

"Do you have to draw the cat in order or can I learn it from the napkin?"

"You can learn it from the napkin. Do you want the file so you can learn a few more?"

"Yes."

"I'll make sure it's included."

"Thank you."

(Ned kisses her forehead.)

Kyoya and his silent companion leave.