[Hearing someone's voice does make it harder to hide expressions and feelings, but it makes it easier to understand someone. Easier than going back and rereading several lines of text and trying to find the right tone for it in her head.]

You mean get the person riled up and have them mess up? Isn't that cheating?

[There's a pause on her side, wondering if she went too far by telling him that. If she was prying too much and should back away, but...she moves forward with it.]

I have; working and trying to ignore everything else and pass out without any dreams. Or...passing out from hunger and exhaustion, you don't have any dreams then either.

[So...that's how shitty her life has been up until recently.]

I can tell you're smirking, you know.

[So that means he has to be lying...just a little...but it's said in a teasing fashion so...]