"I know the name from my childhood. I grew up in Lithuania, which was then a part of the Soviet Union. The Baba Yaga was a staple for us then. A curse and a blessing. A hope for if we might become lost, and a threat if we did not behave." Hannibal smiled.
She wanted to walk, and Hannibal discovered he did not mind the idea one bit. He lifted his arms to her, to guide her down to the ground. When she rolled easily into his hands, he discovered her to be light. Easily, he set her in front of him. A slight nod of his head to indicate he would follow her lead, and they were then walking.
Hannibal walked with his hands clasped behind his back. A serious mannerism that he had learned in medical school. A good way to look authoritative and also a good way to keep one's hands away from things that might be contaminated by them. It came to him easily now, without thought.
"I must say, and I hope that it's not too rude of me to do so, but I would think that in your current incarnation that you would stay away from the front half of your agnomen. You are very much unlike a grandmother in any way." He thought about it for a moment before continuing. "Yaga, however, could simply be the diminutive of Agnieszka. Taking away the cruelty. Though I suspect this is not something you dislike very much."
It was, indeed, the couple that he kept turning his eyes to. The desperate acts of the showy females, the brutality of the males, that was interesting too. But they did not present themselves to Hannibal's mind the way that the couple did. They were so in love, and yet so quarrelsome. They seemed so perfectly natural. So human. They seemed to be exactly the kind that the City was glad for. Those who would blend in for the Brought. Make it feel most like home. He wanted to break the City's hold on them. Show it how very much he could make them hurt.
With his natural ability to focus on two things at once, Hannibal continued his conversation with Baba Yaga while he thought on these matters. "Please, I don't mean to be rude. Merely speculation on my part."