"I always find the finals interesting. So much happens that you may not expect." The stakes of that last round it has a rather a habit of being just what many entrants need to push them to just where they need to be to earn promotion.

Oh she doesn't think he's fishing, if he were she'd expect he'd ask what the exact plans for the finals were or something of the sort. No she imagines he's just being friendly and trying to keep them lapsing into awkward silence, which could happen despite how much her social awkwardness had fallen away over the last few years.