"I just thought you were, like, from somewhere completely different," Xanthippe explained, her hand tilting quizzically to the side even as one of her hands moved up to cover one of his. To press it more firmly over her breast, too. Of course.

She could be a little more assertive when she was also distracted by nerdery. "Like, totally different. I didn't think you'd have any history I'd recognize."

She'd picked up on the similarities and how some things matched up to what she knew, just with different names, but they were talking about specific historical figures, here.