Could Romanos, like, talk a bit more in English? Or French. Alice could do French, too, but what in Merlin's beard was 'oospokoy sye' meant to mean? She couldn't even identify the language from which those words came.

It was rather peculiar how the rapid aging throughout the school was being pointed out by her classmates. Really, she'd just figured someone had started a grey hair trend and it was another fad working its way through Hogwarts. That was most likely it, yeah? Or people trying to play a prank. Whatever it was, the captain didn't plan to dwell on it.

Instead, she took another look at the Ravenclaw beside her. Not an unkind one, merely curious with a hint of wariness in there somewhere. Alice tried to discreetly watch her from the corner of her eye for a bit before scribbling down some notes on her parchment.

Chort. Demon. Slavic mythology. .... which she knew nothing about, so silence from this corner.