"People will assume I made some kind of deal. Might wonder what, won't be very suspicious if we won't tell them."

"Want a shuttleport?"

"How big is it?"

"Train station sized. Might want a lot of space if you're planning to allow a lot of traffic, for crowd management, but the shuttles themselves run just like trains."

"Handy. Can you put it underground like a subway? Maybe under a subway, even, Ayve Station."

"If the engineers think that specific site is safe then yeah, underground is fine."

"Great."

"Do you happen to have contracts who're nineteen and never qualified for a kid?"

"Only if they have bad audits - I have some people go around seeing if people will be okay parents, I try to let anyone who passes that have at least one."

"What kind of thing gets a bad audit -"

"Violent record, unsafe home, uncontrolled addiction to something - I go back and forth on abusive parents, in case there's something passed on, right now it's not disqualifying for the castes I'm not short on permissions for."

"Seems like it'd discourage people reporting abusive parents, if it might cost them a kid someday."

"- oh, nobody but the auditors know I do this at all."

" - ah. They don't, I don't know, compare notes on the internet?"

"Someone might notice I have a weird statistical distribution but all the Houses are different anyway."

"That's really good of you. Making sure they get one, I mean."

"When I was three my father gave me a purple permission to hand out and I tried to take it very seriously but I just gave it to the third purple I saw, he looked so sad."

" - I find it very encouraging that that's how people end up running Houses of Yvalta."

"...it's not, he was disappointed and gave it to my sister. She died and I set up my niece with another House's heir so I could take this one for real after my regency."

"...ah. - are resurrections going to complicate the succession of this and that -"

"...probably?"

"Is that something we should anticipate and pre-empt in some way."

"I'm not sure the House system will hold up under this kind of - chaos, anyway."

"It does seem like it might be less appealing when people have the option of emigrating."

Nod.