--- [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> 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."
>
{ You do not understand, work is work and this is not
work. Mr. Knucklebiter's family is 'close' to me as
they have an honor system that believes since I had
saved his father's life that they are 'responsible'
for me, which I have thought has become the other way
arond sometimes. But at work, effiency is the keyword,
and many do not do like that.}
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