After resolving an especially difficult robotics issue, Lila and Sea head to the Work Lounge to recover while sharing wine and pizza. It's a vegetarian pizza, since by this time most civilized humans have decided that eating other animals is barbaric as well as impractical. The station's advanced horticultural chambers, using highly efficient hydroponic technology, allow intense production of several varieties of plants, which provide the basic constituents for a wide variety of edibles to fulfill crew nutritional needs.
Readers might understandably be curious about the precise relationship of Lila and Sea -- and indeed the evolving social/cultural context deserves comment. By the time these stories take place, many older traditions have changed dramatically or even entirely disappeared. Although some people still elect to live together as couples like Lila and Sea, the institution of marriage has largely disappeared, replaced in most cases by a much looser structure of relationships which may come and go depending on circumstances.
Technological change deeply affected this social evolution, especially the development of the artificial womb which resulted in very few women electing to produce offspring naturally. Instead, children are conceived, gestated, and raised in institutional settings, mostly back on Earth where the necessary extensive facilities are still available to support reproduction adequately. Well before the artificial womb appeared, birth control and sexually transmitted disease prevention measures had been practically perfected. Thus sexual activity is usually seen as very important but almost entirely recreational, much safer, and no longer closely tied to reproduction.
Moreover, gender roles have become much more variable. Heterosexuality remains the major orientation among most populations on Earth as well as the space colonies, but relationships based on other orientations have flourished as well. Advanced medical techniques now allow safe and relatively straightforward physical alterations to accommodate just about any gender identity. In addition, technological enhancements of humans, as well as the emergence of advanced humanoid robots which seem almost to be sentient beings in their own right, will undoubtedly further complicate this picture (to be speculatively explored in future blog entries).
By the way, most space colonies (including Jonson Station) accommodate only adults in the prime of life -- and indeed they must be healthy enough to endure the rigors of survival in space habitats. Alas long standing geriatric issues have not been fully resolved, since even healthy people eventually age and begin to seriously deteriorate. Robotic caregivers have become commonplace, but at some point can no longer cope with challenging quality of life issues. As a result, voluntary euthanasia has become widespread, but remains very controversial.