“London,” Nick answered, too distracted by the card she’d put down throwing his next play off to so much as make a face about it (to be continually annoyed about her company; the way he always did when he was reminded about his prior life, growing up as part of Flourish & Blotts). “My mother’s side is from Bombay. Mumbai,” he added, in Marathi – just on the off chance she happened to speak it too. She might be from Herefordshire, but he had to imagine her family were from a similar part of the world.

(He was – less looking for commonalities, and more for other things to be competitive about. Naturally.)

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