"Within reason, yes," Leia said, with a slight emphasis on the first two words. "It's best not to leave a job half-finished if it can be avoided, whether it involves a mission or not; it almost inevitably causes more trouble later if you do. But it's not good to run yourself into the ground trying to help others. A little rest now and then can do wonders, and make you that much more productive in the end."

As for the rest... how to explain what she meant to the obviously confused young woman? She considered a moment. "Let's try this. Which would you consider more helpful: delivering and helping to distribute a shipment of badly needed medicine and supplies to a town in the midst of an outbreak of a deadly disease, or driving off a ferocious monster that had been repeatedly attacking a different town, damaging property and killing and injuring people there?"