She will have been in London, at least, for a while before this fic. It's comics AU, a Giles coming back as a 12 year old story.

I recall one guy from England who came to visit a friend of mine. (They are married and living in England now.) He asked us what the noise was and it turned out to be cicadas, which is a kind of bug we have here. The thing is it took us a while for us to figure out what he was talking about. We're so used to them we didn't actually hear them at first.

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