She blinks in surprise. "--Um. Do you have any way of getting outside infusions of money right now?"

"...no."

"So it seems kind of--impractical--to be taking money out. Um. My sister and I feel responsible for you, we're just trying to keep you fed and stuff."

"Responsible for us?"

"The fact that kidnapping you to the North Pole was better than all your other options, uh, doesn't mean we didn't kidnap you to the North Pole."

The red blinks at her.

"Also as far as I can tell you don't have non-us ways to get stuff."

"Right."

"So we have to."

Blink.

"...We don't have the problems clean-caste Amentans have with reds."

"Yes, we can tell."

"So we don't want you to starve?"

Blink.

...Odette emails a transcript of the conversation so far to Peka.

Can you just say "I'm bringing you stuff and you don't have to pay me for it and here is my email which you should send further orders to just like you would to your delivery purples but you can splurge since you don't have to pay for it seriously I don't give a shit" instead of trying to walk her through why you are doing that? Like, eventually she will get the picture but the only way you can convince them that you don't consider it reasonable to just leave them in the arctic to starve is by not doing that for an extended period.

Yeah, okay.

She says the thing.

"...okay. Thank you," says Store Red.

"You're welcome."

Reds start investigating the food and putting it places.

She refreshes the heat sources and flies back south.

The Tapai farm purples are there if she wants to resume farming!

She will definitely resume farming! She needs money to support the pole reds.

Farming will fill this need.

Yay.

At least she has gotten efficient enough at it that she can pay attention to other things at the same time, like studying languages.