Come with me. [She leads him into the living room, where she sits on the couch and accepts Asuka into her lap, scratching between her folded-down ears. This is a long story, and they should be sitting for it.]
Not long before I was brought here, and not long after the point from which the Soryu-san you know was taken, Soryu-san suffered a - devastating Angel attack. Her mind was permanently damaged, such that she could no longer function as a stable human being or pilot her EVA, which was her entire life. When I obtained this cat, I believed that I would never see Soryu-san again, and - I wished to do something to honour her memory, as it was likely that she would never recover.
[She looks grim, even slightly paler than usual, as she remembers the attack. I've been defiled, Asuka kept saying... what must she have gone through? What secrets had the Angel dredged out from her consciousness, things she never would have told them?]