[The effect's immediate: The coldness disappears and is replaced with a kind of stuffiness, one that White presses her lips at the appearance of. She really doesn't like this place, even if it's still just weakened.]

I don't know if I'd call it interest, [outside of what she needs from him, anyway,] but recently, I guess I've just wanted to be closer to Leo. So I keep finding reasons for just that and I'm really happy when I get my way.

[It's like a checklist in her mind, but--]

It's nothing really though. I was just embarrassed you worded it like that, coming off of the subject you did. [White would be fine with anyone else, really, because they don't know her. But Black's Black.]