"So..."
In front of Rocky, Liliya spoke without any concealment, sharing all her thoughts and purposes, yet it was precisely her frankness that left Rocky speechless for a long while.
Looking at Liliya, Rocky's mind spun continuously, trying to keep up with her train of thought and hoping to understand her real intentions.
Because anyone could see that, while Liliya's experiences sounded pitiful, they weren't really significant to her. Thus, although everything she said seemed reasonable and appropriate, Rocky found it impossible to sympathize with her and even felt a sense of perfunctoriness.
Indeed, it was perfunctoriness.
Rocky felt that the reasons Liliya gave were just excuses, and perhaps under these excuses lay her true thoughts.
Unfortunately, after a long thought, he could not figure out what might be hidden under those reasons, so Rocky simply stopped thinking about it and instead asked:
"What would I gain?"
