She was nervous. Really nervous... bless her heart. Omi listened to her fumbling over her words and she was just trying so hard. How did you not like someone who did that? He smiled at her, somber but touched.

"Thank you. You're very kind to think of me." And his smile warmed. "And you're human as far as I'm concerned. There's only one meaning of that word that really matters."

And his job had well shown him, species was not it.