Out of caste income cap?

Not allowed to make more than some fraction exactly how much varies usually about 20% of your money from stuff that isn't in-caste stuff.

...Huh.

Some places reds aren't allowed any out of caste income at all but Orvara allows it, it's just really hard to get work even online if anybody knows you're red.

Bleh.

Well, you know, what can you do.

You're not wrong, it's just that people being terrible is a harder taste to get out of my mouth than garlic.

Yeah.

It's so stupid.

I keep thinking--your hair is such a pretty shade of pink, it's so dumb to hate you over it.

Well, it's not technically about the hair. Wasn't any better back when it was white or for Katin who grows it orange.

Yeah but still.

Yeah.

Sometimes I think about people with guns coming for Katin if I hadn't met you and it makes me feel physically sick.

Yeah.

She's okay. She's okay and she's going to grow up happy and we'll do whatever it takes to ensure that.

Katin tipped onto her back, a foot in each hand, bewildered by her predicament.

Oh, gosh. She is so confused!

This happens if you sit up and then grab your feet! She didn't know!

Everything is a learning experience when you are a baby.

It's one of the great things about babies.

Yeah.

There are so many great things about babies! It's weird how aliens don't want them that much.

It's not that I don't want kids someday! But, like, the idea of wanting babies separate from wanting children...I want to see my kids grow up, there are great things about babies and there are great things about one-year-olds and two-year-olds and four-year-olds etcetera!

Well, yeah. I don't think people want babies who stay babies forever, that's not part of how babies are supposed to be and they would be worse at being babies. Although ones who grew up slower would be cool.

It just feels weird, the idea of being desperate for a baby with a two-year-old right in front of you.