The Queens' esteemed pitcher regards Alexis more carefully each time, and seems to really contemplate her every move before she throws her pitch. And when Alexis gives a little smirk of her own around the third or fourth time she's stepped up to the plate to bat, she revels in the fact that Silver seems to freeze slightly—like she's surprised, but less in the sense that she's taken aback and more in the sense that she can't quite find an adequate means to respond. Because her lips part a little, and it kind of makes her look like she's gotten the wind knocked out of her for a brief moment, and Alexis can't help but love that—love that she, too, can hold that kind of power when she wants to use it.