As Luka listened to her speak, Emily took stock of his reactions. She saw the relief when he heard that she was talking about Charles Dickens, and how his relief gave way to something unreadable. She spotted the smile reaching his eyes when she told him that he can change for the better. 

Annnnd there it goes! She blew it by giving him the hard facts. She mentally swore at herself when she saw that. 

"You say that as if taking action would do anything other than delay the inevitable." Came his answer.

To that, she simply shrugged and she answers him, "Maybe it will, maybe it won't. But I'm sure your Superego and Id can agree that the inevitable is not an excuse to just give up; To just lay down and die,"

[I]All four of us took that deal to come back to life after all...[/I]

"...But I think I've wallowed in enough nihilism for one day." Just like that, the nihilism versus hope conversation abruptly came to an end. 

Her eyebrow rose up when Luka turned the questions back to her. Considering that the both of them literally just met the other day, Emily didn't feel comfortable telling him everything about herself. Her body even tensed at the thought, especially remembering how her childhood friend of all people had betrayed her. [I]Besides, was her aspiration really not obvious?[/i]

But then, she realized something that influenced how she could go about her answer. She laughs a bit, before she begins, "Luka...this whole conversation started because you came here to boast and change my mind about you being a frat boy,"

She crosses her arms and gives a smile, and she suggests before he can take her previous statement as an outright refusal to answer, "Tell you what: I'll give you an answer for each of the questions, every time I see you've changed from being a frat boy," 

She finishes, "For now, I'll give you one of my skills as an answer, in return for today's conversation,"

She then proceeds to answer his question, "I can run five miles without stopping at a pace of about nine and a half minutes per mile. Of course, considering what happened the other day, I'm working on my pace and my sprints, just in case,"