Tikki is used to deference, respectful treatment, even from major syndicate 
leaders. In the steel and concrete world of humans, she is a specialist, a 
technician. She rates special consideration, her skills always in demand. She 
can usually name her price or simply walk away if the terms of a job don’t suit
her. Yet her experience with Adama is unique. At times, his manner is so casual, 
so familiar, that an objective observer might wonder if something intimate, 
something owing to gender distinctions, might possibly exist between them.