If they consistently fail to find jobs she can figure something out for that. First she needs to get a workable decontamination procedure.

The theologians get on that. She gets routine updates in the form of impenetrably academic papers about pollution heredity and whether any non-instantaneous process would be undone by the self-renewing pollution and so on.

Her father is a university professor; academic language is less impenetrable to her than to some. But she does take a while and a lot of research to slog through each one.

The theologians at least seem to be having fun.

Good for them.

Illia emails Peka condensed comprehensible summaries of the updates.

These people are really a piece of work.

They so are. But for now they're a necessary piece of work, unfortunately.

Guess so.

I don't know. I just--can't think of another way to solve the problem.

Me either. They're just so annoying.

And also responsible for me having to rescue a city's worth of reds to the north pole!

Well, they're having a decent time of it up there, too much leisure isn't a complaint reds normally have.

Yeah but imagine if I hadn't been there to rescue them.

Would've been bad.

Yeah.

I'm not sure they wouldn't have just killed them all. Maybe they would've herded them into other cities but then that wouldn't have lasted.

Fuck, there are babies and one-year-olds and two-year-olds and--

and those bastards casually asserting you're stupid--I wanted to punch him.

I mean I wanna be green but not like nerd green

Yeah but there's "they're not as smart as a green" and "none of them will be able to get any job".

Yeah that's dumb.

I've never actually heard you sing or anything but I bet you're great at it.

Clip of Peka singing.

I was right!

Thanks!

You're welcome!

Adding this to my reasons the caste system is ridiculous.