"Oh I'm not all that interesting", he drawled modestly, but stepped back the conversation a moment; "so you are from England yourself?"

She spoke Russian, referred to Saint Petersburg as her home, and her family name was Kozlova — so naturally he'd assumed this was where she was born and raised, with any schooling done at Durmstrang. Perhaps Zelda had been a pen friend. But no, she referred to Zelda's home as her own, and Arven found this intriguingly complex.