The human was amazed that the Horta continued to serve  in the fleet if he was so unhappy with everything.  She did not want to  pick a fight with him so she decided to change the  subject.  "Do you have a mate or any other close family?"

 {If One could laugh One would, I am barely a child of 87  years, and will not mate till it close to time for our species to die, but then  again, our biology/ecology has changed so I may live longer than the usual 1000  or so. Our species dies off every 1000 years to allow the planet to recover for  1000, while our eggs are watched over by a Great Mother, hatched to watch over  the eggs of our people. But The Kirk may have changed all that.}
  
"Does that mean that you do not commit to close individual relationships?"  Celine thought that would have been a very lonely existence.
 
{That remains to be seen, but as of now, no our people do not have 'relationships' with each other. But I have forged close bonds with the family of Mr Knucklebiter. His father worked with me, and now he does as probably will his children and theirs.}
Celine had found the friendship is just as important as a sexual relationship.  It was probably more important.  "I can see how Mr. Knucklebiter's family has grown close to you.  You are distant at first, but your are open and expressive as someone gets to know you."
 
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Ray
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