She flicks him a startled glance and her smile tempers to something shy and grateful as she goes back to sifting her tiles for hidden gems. "Well, don't you hold back either, all right?" she says, albeit a bit distractedly. "That's almost worse than trying to guess at reactions."

The game is getting a bit harder, all the obvious spaces taken up or somehow blocked for her particular combination of letters, and many of the most common letters were already on the board, so they had to be worked around rather than added in. She hums thoughtfully and sits back a moment to consider the whole. Her eyes flick back and forth from board to rack to board and back, unconsciously tapping a finger against her lips.

It takes a few minutes of close consideration, but finally she nods and manages a short word laid sidealong to a vertical word, winding up with five words in total and a slightly more robust chunk of points.