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"They're not red," says Alaior, "they're brown."

"They still might not be clean," murmurs her mother.

"...Clean?"

"It would probably be best if the senator and his people were the ones to explain things to you instead of a one-year-old yellow."

She considers this and then nods.

"Why wouldn't they be clean -" asks Alaior.

"We should still be polite to the aliens, darling."

"I'm not being impolite."

"Shhh."

...She does an illusion of herself washing her hands.

"Well, that would be enough for everyday..."

...Appropriately-censored illusion of herself taking a bath.

"It still depends - can you wait for the senator to pick up the call please -"

She sighs and nods.

It doesn't take much longer. Luta tells the senator that there are aliens in the house. She takes a picture of them.

If they care to explain this beforehand Odette will levitate for the picture.

Sure. "I know that could have been doctored, Senator, but -"

"Mm-hm, mm-hm, I'll send out Cadra. Which of the brood were you again -"

"Luta, Senator."

"Mm-hm."

This guy sounds a bit of a dick but she shouldn't judge off this little evidence.

"Thank you Senator."

"Of course, of course, your mother's been good to me - as you know -" he laughs slightly. "Cadra'll be there in fifteen minutes."

Illia finds this a bit puzzling once Odette's translated it but that's only to be expected considering the completely alien culture.

The yellows wait. Some of them pick at what's left of dinner.

Mmkay.

Do they have a fireplace or anything like that?

Nope.

Oh well. She practices the language with her sister.

And in about fifteen minutes someone knocks and is let in. It's a blue woman. She peers curiously at the aliens.

The aliens: are aliens.

"Hi," says one in badly-accented Oakhar.

"Hi!" the other one says from her vantage point floating about a foot off the floor.

"They can understand Oahkar but their translators are still working on the generative side," says one of the yellows.

"I see. How did they get here?"

"We're not sure, they appeared under the table."