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Sedna slapped her hands to her face, precariously balancing the plate of food on her leg and the cup of Mountain Dew between her knees. She kind of felt ready to combust. "Um---" She tried to imagine her wrangling a meet up with Centisima and Beringia...and then just Centisima meeting Beringia...

They were both two extreme personalities...just on very opposite ends of a spectrum. Beringia probably wouldn't be pleased---meeting new people. but then again, he never really was, so that was nothing new. "Y-yeah! I mean---I'm sure you can come patrol with us one night---when we're not training---" Her voice suddenly went high pitched.

"Uhhh----" It was drawn out for a moment. "Yeah, no---it's just---we're just friends and um---it's taken me a really long time just to get into the friend zone, and I'm really happy with that, so I'm just going to keep this crush a secret!" Not a secret to everyone else---just to Beringia.

"Oh...!" Sedna blinked and thought about that. It honestly wasn't something she could argue with! Everyone needed all the help they could get, and it'd just be mean, not to mention ignorant to not help someone out, especially a friend. "Good point! Yeah---maybe we can all train together---uh." She finally turned to look at Centisima again, looking him over from head to toe in a purely speculative manner. "Um---y-yeah! Play fighting maybe um---" She looked away again, her cheeks burning brighter. "Beringia is built like a steel tower." She breathed, and was lost in thought for a moment. "So---just be prepared!"

At this 'plan of action' he was proposing though, the senshi spluttered, and turned an absolutely horrified stare at him. "No!" She wailed, and there was so much irony, that word coming from her mouth. She'd read, and written, enough of this trope to know what he was proposing. "No, no, no, noooooo! No, you haven't met him yet---you----that---that's not going to work on him---not that I want it to, ugh---no! Centisima, no!" She cried, like she was scolding a naughty pet. A naughty pet centipede. "That's---that's going to harm that this tiny shred of ground and trust I've been able to create with him, please---"

Holy Cannoli, he was murdering her. Sedna was caught in a heart wrenching place of not wanting to offend Centisima or put him down in anyway for his good (but awful for her) intentions, but also the pure horror of what she had managed to cultivate with Beringia---Sergei---going up in a flash. She had quickly spiked from embarrassment to sheer panic, and it was obvious on her glass face.

"No---" She cried again, the word coming out choked, and she completely disregarded her own food, and jerked towards the other. The toppled off her lap and onto the ground, the half eaten food with it, and the Mountain Dew soaked one side of her pant leg---but she paid it no mind. Sedna grabbed onto one of his new sleeves, her eyes showing white all around her pupil. "No, no you can't---either of those things---he'll never talk to me again! Please---" She pleaded.

At the assurance, Sedna let out an audible breath, and she squeezed back the hand that held onto hers. Her other hand moved up to pressed against her chest, trying to ease the ache as her heart slowed it's frantically beating pace. She was silent for a few moments, but still clutched his hand tightly as she tried to reign herself back in. It hadn't escaped her, either, how much the thought of good intention meddling and the prospect of it sabotaging what she had with the knight had scared her. She wasn't the type to cry, but at how quickly it had terrified her, and knowing it, she wanted to go curl up in a corner. She never thought she was possibly walking a tight rope with Beringia---but maybe in some regards, she was.

Her heart rate returning to something of normal, Sedna sucked in another breath, and let it out. She looked over at him. "Sorry...I'm---sorry, I just spazzed, I know I did---I---it's---it's not that I don't appreciate the thought, and the effort, and I just---I know you'd do it, because that's how you look out for your friends---I do, appreciate the thought, I really do---it's just---" It was just...yeah. She gave a helpless shrug, and ended up just blurting what was on her mind.

"Maybe I shouldn't have to work so hard to be friends with someone, yeah? Or be this scared about losing it because of a good intention---but I just..." She fell silent for a moment. "I just...want to be near him. That's all. I want it...so bad." She grimaced for a moment at that, before her lips eased back into her usual smile. "You two really are night and day---it's so natural and easy being friends with you!" She laughed a bit at that.

"But um---you promise?" She asked, her voice squeaking a bit.

She trusted him. He said he wouldn't, and she wasn't worried about it anymore, because he'd keep his word. That's what friends did!

"It would have been fun to have been penpals with you in highschool!" She assured him. "Woulda made my time way more exciting and colorful---and they---what do you mean would have? We make a good team, now!" When he let go of her hand, she let go of his, and couldn't help but jest, "Or you mean bored with the lack of, yeah?" She smiled, and at the shoo motion, stood---only then to realize what had happened to her plate of food and drink.

"Oh NO!" The senshi exclaimed, bending over the fallen food and empty cup with despair. "The food I didn't finish---I'm so sorry!" Regardless, she knelt and picked up the fallen food, replacing it back on the plate. She stared down at it sadly, then looked around for a trash and recycle bin. "Be right back---" She went off and deposited the food into the trash, the other items into recycling, and then came back. "Alright---ready!"