[ For all that she is playing along a little, she still seems a bit defiant - or at least she's trying to be. It's a little strange for her, in any case, to be caught between the urge to prove she can win this game and wanting to pull back. She furrows her brow. ]

It's not like I have much to lose.

[ She's more right than she knows and also more wrong than she knows. She's not used to this place yet. ]

Gratitude? What? You expect me to get on my knees or owe you a favor or what? Because that's not happening.