Better

"It's, um… Well…"

Anastasia seemed to be mulling something over.

Leonel realized that it wasn't that she was trying to figure out what to say, but rather if she should be saying it at all. Right now, Anastasia wasn't just weighing how to help Leonel, but she was also considering her own moral values and compass.

There were certain things that had changed between them, but there were also some things that remained the same.

She wanted to help Leonel, but now she had her own thoughts about such things. And unfortunately for her, she wasn't quite used to hiding her thoughts and picking and choosing things.

She was high on intelligence and deductive reasoning, but her emotional intelligence was much lower by comparison.

It made her very easy for Leonel to read, even if she would likely feel unfathomable to most people.

Soon, Leonel realized why it was that she was struggling like this.