This was spiraling further and further into potential disaster the longer it occurred. Serrica's behavior was only seeming to aggravate Lilian, who in turn was doing her best to incite Serrica. 

And Anne had found herself caught in the middle of a potentially dangerously escalating situation. She wanted to try and stay out of these sorts of things, the idea of anything that could trip any sort of flag was terrifying at this point. This seemed like it was brewing to catapult them into a a chain of tempting flags left and right!

What did she say?! Aaah, she didn't want to express any interest in the Prince at all! She didn't want to go down that route! She didn't want to make Lilian [i]think[/i] she was going down that route!

Deep breaths.

She had to take deep breaths, clear her head, and calm herself.

And give a natural response.

Perhaps bowing was a bit over the top.

"I-I-I wish you g-g-good luck!"

And practically yelling that almost certainly didn't yelp.

But Anne couldn't stop the anxiety from getting to her.

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