I said a hurried goodnight to Alex and walked inside with my stepbrother. Once we were inside I hugged him hard. I had missed him. I looked up at him ...nd was surprised. He was starting to look less like a boy. His dark brown wavy hair set off his green eyes nicely and I thought his face had hardened a bit. He had a little bit of a shadow on his face from not shaving for a couple of days.We talked to my stepdad for a few minutes then went upstairs. I changed into my standard attire of a camisole. “This plant, this marijuana, has many good uses that help people.”“I know, but we have other things now for those uses,” she says. “The thing is, mostly it’s used today recreationally, to get high. Like alcohol, you know.”“It was used so also among my people, a few,” I tell her. “Not many. One will not hunt well or do other things well if one chews leaves or places in fire to breath smoke. It is as with alcohol, it must be used carefully and small and at times when mind and body are not needed. "I said, "Oh, well there is a Tastee Freeze in town where we can hang outat on Friday and Saturday nights and there is a roller skating rink andthe cinemas and just different things and of course there is the highschool football team which plays on Friday nights. I guess when you comefrom the city there might seem to be more things to do. Why don't youlet me show you around town on Friday and you just might find you canhave fun in this town on Friday night."She asked, "So what do you do for. Other than Silver and Coppa, the others had changed places with other androids when they went to Ochre City. They all thought a sea voyage was a good learning experience.The human crew treated each of the androids as individuals. They each had their own quirks and senses of humour. Even the passengers got into the habit of treating them as people too. Captain Hail wouldn’t tolerate any mistreatment of his androids.They were his crew, end of story. He made sure on the first night on board that.