Part of her expected that any conversation about magic with someone who hadn't known of its existence prior would not be without some form of nervousness on the as yet uninformed side - but she was rattled by being here already, and really didn't want to scare the guy.

"I couldn't read minds," Lily said quickly. She knew it was theoretically possible (and suspected her old Headmaster very capable of it) but hadn't done more than casually research Legilimency for the occasional term paper.

"I can fix things? Protect myself if I have to, though," she gestured down at the satchel at her feet. "Not as effectively as I had hoped when taken by surprise." Shaking her head at the very unpleasant thought, she looked back to the stranger, realizing he had seen her at work and knew more about her than she did about him.

"Where do you come from?"