"Nah, I moved out here a while ago. I grew up there, but I've got relatives in this area," Zatanna said, truthfully but evasively. She wasn't ready to get into that just yet; there was something else she wanted cleared up first.

"I like John's accent," she said quietly. "Cockney is fun like that. Even when I have no idea what he's actually saying, I still get it. Most times." She gave Crowley a measuring look over her mug. "He's been pretty quiet lately, though. And when he does talk, he's--struggling. Faking his way through conversations that should come easily." And you know all about it; you've been running interference for him. "Something happened to him recently, didn't it? Something major."