The Norbears, or Pushing Your Button to Get You to Tell Their Story?

One of my favorite parts of fair trade was the interaction between the crew of dulcimer and their difficulties in making people crew, or otherwise understand that the norbers they are in contact with are actual people. It touched me. While most people were not capable of understanding the aliens, those few who could had to overcome prejudices against themselves in order to champion the others. But i think came up with swithian, and on the fact that her family just knows she's the weird one, and she counts and she doesn't, she wants to examine things and understand things. She doesn't even have to get soad have a ship's drawl. Um, she is lucky wo