Peka and Katin are out on a walk in the beautiful city!

He finds them and waves and heads over. "May I kiss you again?"

"Please do!"

Kiss!!!!! "It occurred to me - you said all those people with fancy degrees would be telling me how reds are terrible - what if you were worrying I'd believe them - and then I couldn't wait to get home. I should go back in a bit, but -" Kiss. Kiss kiss.

Mmmmmmkisses. "Apparently they weren't very convincing!"

"I was not expecting to be convinced but they barely even made a credible effort! They actually agreed there was no scientific basis at all, it was just Obviously True, You Know - they also lied to me about the infanticide thing, I think they were embarrassed - somebody's talking to the reds about possible relocation, I'm supposed to be back in an hour, I asked lots of questions about what kind of place they might like to be relocated to, in case that would help to communicate that, uh, we cared at least a tiny bit about their wellbeing."

"Talking to which reds?"

"They said the community leadership was mostly retired people?"

"Yeah but like where, which city -"

"Yours." Hug. 

"Oh no, do you have to talk to that insufferable social worker -"

Illusion-face. "This guy? He's probably more insufferable to you."

"Yeah, that guy. Maybe he will be less insufferable to you, that could be."

"You'd think if there existed, like, one orange who thought it was appalling the way your world treats reds, that one would take the liaison job, instead of someone who'd be - obnoxious -"

"Nah, they'd get fired if they tried to, like, not treat us that way. Or they'd do their job and then get all offended that we still hated them when they told us there wasn't going to be any compensation for the new construction going up and blocking all the sunlight in our neighborhood, or that nobody was gonna get in trouble for beating a senile old lady to death for making a wrong turn."

"If you have a list of people to resurrect -"

"She wasn't anybody I knew or anything, it just sucked."

"You could say that, yeah. I -" Hug. 

Hug!!!

"Have you two bought anything or are you just looking -"

"I bought snacks but I'm mostly just making a shopping list for next time the demon comes by."

"Oh, good idea. I'm going to have to buy a giant space station from someone tomorrow, we can ask Kezel first and have her do your shopping even if she's not in the mood for something that'll take all day."

"Sounds good!"

"But if you see anything you really want, do feel free to buy it, you should consider yourself outrageously wealthy as far as it's relevant for purchasing decisions."

"I will keep this in mind."