"You'd call a zoo," Anabel deadpanned, staring at Niki in disbelief. "And when they didn't get here quick enough and someone died? What then?" He had absolutely no sense of the danger he was putting others in. Or rather he was proving to have no sense whatsoever.
She snorted, tapping her foot on the ground beneath her as she regarded Niki as he rose. "Perhaps this cousin of yours is your guardian and you simply don't want to admit to it because you don't want to get in trouble." And she certainly felt like he deserved to get in trouble. Transfiguring things in a park, really now!
"Perhaps you don't want to admit to him being the boss of you," Anabel replied, letting her look turn into one of mild reproach instead of the annoyance it had been. "Why would I believe you? You don't speak like Nikolai You don't act like Nikolai did and you certainly don't dress like Nikolai did."