"Ah-"
Her eyes widened
"I.....I-I'm sorry....I-I'd love to but-I-I'm not going....."
"Well...my stepmother won't pay for a dress-a-and I-I don't have the money to get one-m-most of my earnings from work go directly into her account....a-and even if I did have the money-I-I have other, better things to use it on-a-and it'd have to hide all my metal parts and-and what if the partygoers realized I was a cyborg? I-If they realized their prince had brought a cyborg to the ball-i-it'd cause a national uproar...a-and I don't want to do that to Kai....not with everything else that's going on....."