Rose smirked right back at him. "Well, it helped that I have so much natural talent." Rose wasn't really as cocky as she sounded. Well, maybe she was a little. She was teasing, mostly, though. Part of that was to cover how unbelievably thrown she was by all of this.
Her eyes remained on his as she moved toward the couch. She was still wary, but as she studied him, she became more and more convinced that he was telling the truth. However impossible it seemed, this was Dmitri.
"Why don't you start from the beginning," she suggested as she took a seat beside him. "I'm not sure how far ahead of me you are-" Wow, that sounded weird. "-but it feels like I'm missing a lot."