It was reassuring that Svetlana and her family weren't native English speakers. Rei knew her accent would be difficult to understand, so she tried her best to annunciate as best as she could. She had a good grasp of the English language, but she'd never used it before outside of school. Using it in every day conversation was difficult, but she was trying. She might end up having to get a Japanese-English dictionary for herself to help with the translating. Especially for use in school. She had no doubt she'd come across words she'd never even knew existed in the English language.
"Really? That is useful if you make an experiment that you really enjoy."
Before she'd met the other senshi, Rei hadn't been comfortable around anyone. Of course it was mostly because she herself didn't let anyone close to her and no one really tried to get close to her. If no one really knew here, then she couldn't be hurt again. As much as she didn't like being alone, she refused to be hurt again. Yet after meeting the senshi, that had changed. She came to care about them, and they cared about her. For the first time in her life, she had people she could call friends. There was even someone she loved, which was surprising to her, but she couldn't change how she felt. All she could change was how she dealt with it, especially now considering Minako was alive. Taking herself out of those thoughts before they went to places she didn't want to go, she looked at Jelena. "Do you like tea?" It was perhaps odd to ask that of a five year old, but given Svetlana liked tea, Rei had a guess that she let her daughters have some once in a while.
Anatoly was interested in what Fayina was studying. Truth be told, he had been surprised just how accepting people were here of different cultures. But once he'd gotten used to the fact that many different people appeared here with various abilities, some of these people not even truly human, he wasn't so shocked anymore. Those who were displaced needed to accept things because like it or not, they were all in the same situation and had to find ways to work together when bad things happened. Even though he knew some people would always be blinded by generalities and assumptions simply based on what country someone was from, Anatoly knew that there were people that didn't care about that.
Smiling to Fayina, he sipped his tea and looked over at Rei and Jelena. He couldn't help but smile as he could tell his youngest daughter seemed to have found a new friend. And despite the fact Rei seemed a little detached, she seemed to warm up to Jelena as well as Svetlana.