Right, then. He requests a teleport and they go. 

The place they arrive at is a fancy fusion cuisine place whose staff don't obviously stare at them when they arrive, and when they're in it's clear that Tae-gun rented the whole place. "I know it's kind of a dick move but it's lunchtime and it's Christmas Eve anyway so most people aren't off work or anything so I'm probably not really limiting other couples' time and it's really hard to find date ideas that we can do under our circumstances but I figured we might as well and, um."

"If you could - rent the whole restaurant, then they probably didn't have any reservations already?" offers Hye-jin, who is aware that just getting a private room would have been smarter, but. ... It's really sweet that he rented the whole restaurant. Also it soothes some of her Kang Jaeha related anxieties. "It's very sweet," she adds, because it is.

He has no idea how to respond to that! Good thing an employee is taking them to a table now where some appetisers are waiting for them already, plus the menu.

Eeeee.

She doesn't know what to say right now either, but. She'll smile at him?

No there is a script now! They can look at the menu and discuss what to eat! And give each other suggestions! Those are things to say right now.

And this man said with a straight face he wasn't on the autism spectrum.

Anyway, yes! They can! She will pick something that sounds good and make a suggestion for a side thing to share, because: they do not have to worry about the food not being eaten. Tae-gun's metabolism is powerful and his stomach is vast.

It kind of is. 

...also he's out of things to say again. That's usually fine but this is a date and they should be doing date things but he has no idea what those are he is bad at going on dates aaaaaa

Oh no she's failing to be charming and interesting to her date aaaa -

- wait. wait. Hold on. Hye-jin. You're being stupid. This is Tae-gun.

She reaches across the table to gently take his hand, then:

"So I've been tempted to try and get a salt water aquarium setup in my new silo, entirely for the aesthetic. But I think that's probably irresponsible, considering, you know. Living things."

"...you could maybe set up some system to release food on a schedule and..." Anything more complicated than that would be a waste of money, they're fish. "You could get a holographic aquarium?"

Anxiety: gone. Good job, Kim Hye-jin.

"Mmmmaybe, yeah. Holographic's a good idea. Mostly I'm just a bit sad about, you know. Lost opportunity." Underwater base. Not a hint of any sign of being underwater. It's a damned shame that sea water is so incredibly bad for things!!!

"Opportunity?"

Well she doesn't want to say it out loud here where people might be listening! Then it'll give away her silo location! Of. Being somewhere in 70% of the Earth's surface. Hm.

".... It's sort of like having a volcano lair and then not having some kind of lava based fixture?" she hedges, still feeling like she's being Terrible at information security.

"...well, it doesn't need to be an aquarium, there's lots of similar... decorative choices you could make?"

"That's true." She props her head on the hand that isn't holding his. "What kind of ideas do you have, then?"

Sheeeeee's looking at him in that way that makes his heart flutter again.

"I, um, I mean. I'm not. Um. Good at. That."

"Sure you are! I hadn't even thought of holograms as a potential option. It's a good idea."

...that's sus. And sounds fake. Like yes he did in fact say that but. Sus.

"Um... Lighting maybe? That can get uncomfortable I guess but the way light behaves and reflects in water is..."

"Hmm. I think I wouldn't want to make a whole big thing of that, but... maybe for some sort of nightlight situation? Because it gets so dark in there."

"The problem is that blue is exactly the kind of light you don't want at night, at least if you're planning to sleep, right? So maybe... No, hmm..."

"That's true. Hm. But it'd be so pretty, and it might be okay if it's not too bright? And has an off switch? Hmm. Now I want to talk to a lighting expert on if there's a way to fake it with green light..."

"I'm not sure if green light is worse?" he says, grabbing his phone to Google. "Okay so it's half as bad as blue apparently but still not great."

"That makes it tempting! And I'm not talking like, screen bright? It would just be enough to not trip over the furniture. Which I think is the main focus on blue light keeping people up, I don't super want all nightlights in my silo to be doom coded."

"'Doom coded'?"

"I feel like if everything is red and orange lit at night, exclusively, I am hitting the volcano fortress aesthetic. And, well, if I wanted that aesthetic I would have put a house next to a volcano."

"Oh. Yeah. 

"What about screens along the walls that look like windows into the ocean? Separately, I mean."