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He's going to kill them they have to get away--
she commands it--
and then they are away and it occurs to her that she never specified where to. She slowly unclenches her arms from their death grip around her sister and looks around.
Odette and Illia land in Calado
sheerstubbornness
Yeah, I guess I phrased it pretty alarmingly. Sorry.
For the record our planet only has one moon.
sheerstubbornness
Pretty sure! I don't think I've ever heard anyone claim otherwise. And it'd complicate the tides something awful.
sheerstubbornness
Illia continues socializing with her sister when she's on break from food production and sending Peka small-talk-y emails. She makes preliminary inquiries to the Tapai government about the possibility of going to Orvara to talk to theologians.
For writing, yeah, hard to hold a verbal technical conversation in it. What's the problem with inviting theologians to Tapa?
Tapa's relying on Odette for food security and would like to be able to keep track of her sister if they can meet her needs locally.
That's fascinating! It has all kinds of implications. (Theologians deal with pollution but also seem to have opinions on relationships, being a good member of your caste, sleep schedules, childrearing, and other miscellany.) They're very curious.
The Tapai government blue who has been the sisters' liaison says quietly that they're going to have more trouble restraining the journalists after this.
sheerstubbornness
"I understand," she murmurs back.
Aliens don't have castes! Some aliens, like her father or the leader of their city, she can sort into one caste or another by temperament fairly easily, but it doesn't seem to be strongly hereditary the way it is with Amentans and many, like her mother or ex-girlfriend, resist easy classification.
She has a college student's sleep schedule and should therefore maybe not comment there.
She finds pollution fairly concerning! Back home they can deal with all of that stuff with magic and the idea of an entire caste that's been rendered unclean by prolonged contact is horrifying. She suspects it could be solved with magic, most problems like that can, but she's not an expert on genetics and wouldn't have a good guess how.
They didn't really expect aliens to have castes just like theirs, and are very impressed that they've managed to handle pollution with magic! They would love to also handle pollution with magic, how is it done?
