[ she smiles, although there's a tinge of... bittersweetness, to it? ]

I've had the fortune of having some Martian... well, Martians I've been acquainted with. I'm not sure if I could really say we were friends, but—I've learned a lot, from some of them.

I'm not entirely sure I understand all of it, but they don't have family structures like yours or mine—they're arranged into groups called kiimas, that determine their profession. So they tend to think it's strange, if you talk about choosing a profession, unless they're one of the Maozooni.