Probably a good sign.

Hm.

She goes to find an adult.

One is making lunch.

"So it has come to my attention that this country is deeply unpopular and generally agreed to be badly run; I don't want you and the Senator to not be glad you helped me but I also don't want to prop up what the Internet seems to consider a nest of rabid mice."

"- rabid mice? That's new," she says. "I think our reputation's oversold. You haven't had any problems here, have you?"

"I have also barely left this house and do not have an overriding desire for babies--my species wants children but not babies in particular. And we're fertile all year. And have years the length of one of your seasons."

"Well, yes, you're aliens, but that doesn't seem to have much bearing on what Calado's like..."

"My point is that the fact that I haven't had trouble doesn't mean there isn't trouble to be had."

"There's problems everywhere. It's popular to talk on the internet about certain things way out of proportion. Calado's on fire, Tapa murders babies, that sort of thing."

"Tapa what."

"That's their population control solution."

"I was only researching Calado back to the Internet."

"Let me know if you need any more context."

"I will."

Back to the Internet! Tapa: what the fuck.

Tapa, a nation of well over a billion people, uses a credit auction system. While birth control of all forms and abortion are free every now and then someone decides to try to sneak a baby or can't pay off a credit they're buying in installments, whereupon Tapa kills the baby. Other countries just take the baby away and give it up for adoption, with more or less strict policing of attempts at visitation.

Eeeeuugh baby murder. Well. She'll figure out a way to deal with that--are there any babies in danger of being murdered right now.

It is summertime and the statute of limitations doesn't expire till the end of the season but usually they've caught them all by this time of year.

Oooookay. Can she find anything out about how they kill the babies.

It's a grey work, the person who does it is anonymous, regular police forces take them in in the first place, it's supposed to be very gentle.

Gentle. Right. So they're taken to a place, right, can she find anything out about the place?

Undisclosed location.

Anything about it other than its location?

It wouldn't have to be very big. They moved it once, the previous location is now a dentist's office.

That seems kind of gross to her but okay. Where is Tapa relative to Calado?

North.

How far north?