With the dishes dried and away, Buffy figured it a good time to break the ice so to speak. She'd worried about introducing something that was so difficult a subject to discuss after they'd been so happy. She was afraid that the slightest misstep on her part would shatter everything that they'd build over the past weeks. But she had to trust, right? That was what trust was about, and it was important not to shy away from difficult subjects.
"Hey, um, you got a minute?" she asked, turning around to face him and hoping her face didn't betray how nervous she actually was. Just days ago she'd insisted to Doctor Lecter that she wasn't afraid of anything, and now it was hard enough to stop her heart from pounding. "I mean, of course you have a minute. I just, you know. I kinda need to ask you something."