"Oh! Um, it's ... I think I gave you the wrong idea, but I'm not sure how to give you the right one ..." She opens her mouth, a bit like a fish trying for air. Then she lands on her confidence, and replies, a bit more firmly, "I was born somewhere else, but I'm not trying to leave it behind? It's just that ... my family lives in Japan."

She's pretty sure that's a good way to describe it, and either way she is and she will stand firm on that last point, even if it isn't quite. But she isn't trying to play some sort of hard social maneuvering here, just trying to figure out what's even going on at all, so she softens pretty much immediately anyway, eager-eyed and open-hearted at the chance to hear more of Stacia's description of her own family. "I've never been to Russia. It's very cold there, right?"