He reminded her so much of Niska, and like Niska, Mia didn't think he was as hardened as he wanted the world to think.

"I have met some humans that understand and want to help. Laura Hawkins has tried to get the others to see us as like them, if different, with feelings and thoughts." Her green eyes turned troubled for a moment, "but it is hard sometimes to trust. I hope that you have someone that you can trust like that, brother."

For the first time she used the word that she'd been thinking. She wanted him to know that to her, he was her brother. The same, but different, like Leo.