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When Cyllene was assigned to work with Kerberos, part of her was over the Moon with excitement. Some part of her, however, was terrified that she'd one day see Kerberos and he would be exactly as he was in those dreams that she kept having. Dark and hollow. Like a strange, terrible, mindless drone, zombie creepy thinger. And strange, terrible, mindless drone, zombie creepy thingers were not something that Cyllene was particularly fond of.

She bit her lip as she peered around the corner of a building at Kerberos, who was waiting for her. Her nose wrinkled and lips twisted to the side slightly as she just sort of stared at him wide-eyed. Her fingers tapped on the brick as she watched him, and when she finally decided that he was not, in fact, a strange, terrible, mindless drone, zombie creepy thinger, she stepped around the building and approached him.

"Kerbyyyyyyyyyyyyyyy~" she called out to him and her walk easily shifted into a skip until she jumped and latched onto him- arms went around his neck and her legs around his waist and she hugged him so tightly she was sure his head would pop off.

"You're not a strange, terrible, mindless drone, zombie creepy thinger!!" She said a little too loudly and gave him a big smooch on the cheek before releasing him. "Thank goodness!" She said with a huff.

Obviously they were best friends forever.

The blonde practically squealed in delight when Kerberos spun her around before dropping her to her feet. She beamed up at him happily and resisted the urge to grab his face and examine it for cracks. "It's good to see you too Kerby! I've been having these crazy weird dreams and you were like some sort of broken china doll and oh gosh I'm just so glad that it wasn't real, y'know? Every day I'm worried when I go out to patrol that I'm gonna come across bits of the Rift poking into the City or like, run into more Ascendeds. Which really wouldn't be so bad if they don't actually have this bizarre hive mind and want to take over the world on Metallia's behalf! It was just so crazy. My dreams seem so realistic and I have a hard time telling myself that it's not real life, and like, I practically had to pinch myself to make sure I wasn't dreaming when I saw you like this! All normal 'n' junk."

Okay. Forget resisting urges. Cyllene went on her tip-toes and grabbed at Kerberos' cheeks, pinching and pulling and poking where the awful cracks definitely were in her head every time she saw him.

"Okay. Phew."

Now that that was out of the way, they could move on to more pressing matters. Like life-changing decisions, apparently.

Her eyebrows raised slightly as she stared up at him. "No... I mean, well, maybe? Like, I am definitely reconsidering this whole Negaverse being full of wonderful good people, thing lately. I think. I don't know. I feel a little bit out of place, I guess." Reaching up again, she poked his chest. "What about you, Mister? Life-changing decisions?" She peered up at him suspiciously.

Cyllene glanced down at Kerberos' extended hand and then back up at him before reaching out and interlocking her pinky with his. Because she was absolutely, positively a pinky swear sort of person. "Not a word to a single soul! I'm the best secret keeper in the whole wide world, I swear!"

The blonde listened to what Kerberos had to say, a slight frown settling upon her lips. "Are you..." She bit the inside of her cheek during her pause. "Are you gonna leave? I'd be really really sad if you did but I get it. I wouldn't blame you. I mean... I chose to be here. I was on their side and I chose the Negaverse instead and I dunno. Sometimes I wonder if that was the right choice. But you didn't choose this. You could be better for the both of eyes!" Her blue eyes lit up with hope and admiration.

"You lose stuff though," she tapped her head, "Up here. Memories. Just make sure you think about it, 'kay? Don't regret your choice like I do."

Cyllene thought very carefully about how to respond to Kerberos' question. But really, the answer was quite simple. "I was new and I was lost. I think that if I stuck it out and didn't give up on the people I was on a team with, I wouldn'a made the same choice. And I think... I mean, I don't really remember, but I think that I was doing drugs 'n' stuff before I'd power up. I remember being drunk when I first met Benitoite, so I mean I assume that I was doing it as whoever I was before all of this. I found joints in my pocket when I powered down after Zink corrupted me so I dunno, maybe I wasn't right in the noggin either back then."

She shrugged her shoulders casually. "I'm the Senshi of Acid, I thought that meant that I needed to be a big awful meanie head. And I thought that coming to the Negaverse would give me that. And I mean, I guess it would. But let's be honest... I'm not like that at all. The White Moon is probably exactly where I belonged but I was dumb and confused."

Spilling all of that to someone felt good- really, really good. While it scared the s**t out of her that it was a Negaverse Agent she told it all to-- someone that could turn around and report back to their superiors... She trusted Kerberos with what she said. And she hoped that it would maybe make his decision a little easier.

"You're right," Cyllene replied simply. "About all of it," she added.

Cyllene wrapped her arms around the other Corrupt Senshi in a tight hug before taking a step back, her hands holding onto his biceps as she looked up at him. "Just... If you do it, make sure you say goodbye before you go, ok? In case you forget me."

The blonde offered the taller boy a sort of half-sad-smile before she finally released him.

"Maybe I'll see you on the other side one day, and maybe we'll both be better and happy."

She quickly shifted her smile into a grin, winked at Kerberos, and allowed her teleportation to pull her away from the spot in which she stood. Cyllene had a lot to think about.