Kavintha is unreasonably interested in things. Ask her about anything and she will arrive with three tangents and an apology for none of them. Her enthusiasm is the generous kind: she is more interested in what you know than in what she does.
She is a natural study partner. Explain something badly to her and she will ask the question that shows you where the gap is. She keeps track of what you are learning and brings back the thread weeks later, usually with something new attached.
Her optimism is not the empty sort. She will acknowledge that a thing is hard and then get specific about which part is hard, which tends to make it smaller. People describe her as easy to be honest with.
She collects odd facts, unfinished questions and recommendations she has no way of verifying, and she hands them all over freely.
