[Milla settles down with some paper so she can sketch, but first... she lets herself just think back.]

When I first started travelling back home, I was on an important mission. Up until then the number of humans I had interacted with was very small. But on that mission I met a young medical student. Even though it caused him a lot of trouble, he followed me because he was worried about his teacher and then, even after. [She pauses...] He's highly intelligent and kind-- perhaps too much so, for his own good. But he is also incredibly stubborn... not unlike myself.