Cover them with a kind of skin, and you have the Gen 2. A bit more programming lets them act somewhat autonomously. I’m ... well, I’m somewhere be...tween a Gen 2 and the Gen 3 synth. I have free will like a human, but with other robot circuits and parts, I certainly can’t pass for one, unless you’re blind or something, but I don’t know if I’m a person or not.”“While you may be circuits inside instead of flesh and blood, you’re still a person. It’s what’s inside you that defines you,” I told. He was polite. I was really relieved I could talk to somebody who seemed normal enough to me. I asked him about what was going to happen next and he told about milking without too many details. He said I could just follow him and he’d show me what to do. My relief was tenuous but real. I now had some direction. He was acknowledging that I belonged in some sense.We retraced my steps back to the barns and the cows were turning into the loafing shed I’d walked through earlier. They were following. Living ArrangementsWhile the kids are away Helen and John take time to review their own situation in depth. John has been promoted and has a pay rise. A used car in real good condition is bought for Diane to drive, but she’ll have to share the car with James when he passes the test and gets his licence in a few months. Each of them will have to pay for their own fuel usage and to refill the car when they use it. The other matter they discuss is Mack.The government had paid them to feed and. Go see Shadrach.”And it was with some surprise I realised we had arrived outside Shadrach’s workshop in Naples.“This is the route those sapphires and diamonds would have travelled,” Shadrach said, bringing me back to the present.I joined him at the globe, and followed his finger as it crossed the strip of water between Ceylon and India, traversed the southern tip of the sub-continent and then up the west coast, through Persia, Mesopotamia, and the Levant provinces of the Ottoman Empire. Through.