Natural processes attenuate pollution over a considerable period of time! Does she want to see a chart?

Sure.

Here is a chart about various amounts and ways things can be polluted and the effects of various environments and processes on them! Reds are the most polluted thing and are self-renewing.

Huh. So if all the matter in a red's body was replaced with clean matter and the old matter dumped somewhere unclean stuff goes...

Well, then the interesting question is whether reds can spontaneously generate pollution through some means independent of the matter composing them, whether their metabolisms will work in the way clean people's are understood to work where polluting waste substances are not contagious within the body until such time as the body chooses to expel them, whether reds have picked up genuinely genetic uncleanliness...

Pity her father's not here, he's a genetic engineer.

They have some of those, but they didn't come to the theology conference. They can write them later.

Makes sense.

The theologians are having so much fun.

She's glad for them. As long as the fun results in favorable decisions, not that she'll mention that part.

The conference doesn't end with any conclusive red-cleaning procedure but theologians give her their email addresses and promise to send her copies of their papers.

She'll take it.

One of the theologians sends her an email: So, we actually have a procedure for allowing purples to work red jobs. There's not really a plan for what to do with reds in the test city, though, do you want them for experimenting on? I could put in a word!

She emails Peka.

So I had a conference with some theologians and it didn't get anywhere conclusive on the cleaning reds thing but I've been keeping in touch and one just sent me this--and she copies the text of the email from the theologian.

Shiiiiiit

Yep.

If you said yes you want them for experimenting on would you have a place to put them

Could make a floating city or something. Like in the water, not a flying city, Otet's not magic enough for that yet.

Can you make it big enough to hold six hundred fifty million people?

I don't know. Maybe? Maybe we should check to see if Otet's made enough money off the food thing to buy some rainforest.

Or poles if you can keep it warm.

Warmth is considerably easier than I expect seasons to be!

We could put up with permanent spring if the alternative was Literally Death.

Yeah.

Fuck, I'm sorry about this.

Wasn't gonna blame aliens.