You make that sound so easy. [and here she sits, unconvinced yet.] But I don't want to risk the friendship I already have due to feelings he can't return.

[ She seems oddly certain of it, moron that she is in emotional matters. Yet did she not ask Dohalim here for help on this? Perhaps some small part of her is already regretting doing so, but Sophia isn't going to have the option to back out now.

She bites her lower lip. He was right to call her out on her lack of poise; she's hardly a schoolgirl after all. ]

I have your word, that you won't say anything to him? Or anyone else?