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She looks up this country's satellite-imagery maps program and finds the alley and teleports there.

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They startle but don't drop their stuff.

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"Hi. Let's go." Pop pop pop outside 5-R. "This is their apartment."

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...they look at the door.

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"You can touch it, you live here." She knocks.

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Kenyo gets the door and pulls them in and gets them leftover everything platter and shows them where the twins are playing with the computer.

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And shortly after that Tannelë is back. "Oh, good, you got here! We should go across the street to get you documents."

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"Documents?" asks the mom.

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"I mean, the word's from back when there was paper involved, but get you citizenship, get you registered for your stipend, get you your own keys to the apartment. And then maybe we can take the train uptown and get breakfast at a restaurant there, so you all get some experience with navigating the city?"

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"We have the run of the place," Kenyo tells them, and for emphasis he gestures at the pictures of the prince and his girlfriend on the screen.

"Oh," says the mom.

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"Nowhere else in the universe has that taboo, it's just your planet."

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"Oh."

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"...so do you want to go get your paperwork straightened out?"

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"- okay?"

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And they do that. Macalaurë checks in with Voa on space-station populating, tells them he'll be gone the next day for a wedding.

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They have lots of applicants for the station and have picked a preliminary batch. Robots to do red jobs so they needn't send reds, right?

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Yep, since it sounds like otherwise getting a membership would present challenges and getting a membership is the point of this exercise. There won't be any need for laws that treat the other castes differently?

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Not within the station. Voa itself is not going to make any major changes and they're not picking from the applicants quite neutrally but once they get there everything should be how Vanda Nossëo likes it.

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The idea is that having outrageously wealthy member neighbors usually produces some interest in social change back home, but they don't plan to point that out. They'd love to look at the legal system for the space station! (Does Voa still need food shipments or have they gotten that straightened out by now?)

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The Tapai have started withdrawing and they'll be okay but another few shipments would still be good.

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That can be arranged. A bunch of companies from other Vanda Nossëo member states are hiring in the space station; they're not sorting the jobs according to caste.

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The applicants mostly assume anyway, although sometimes since the listings don't specify they'll get yellows and greens or purples and greys showing up for the same things and being confused.

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This job's one requirement is an absolute commitment to confidentiality and the pay is kind of astronomical, what castes does that get you?

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Yellows, greys, and an orange! They are REALLY confused when they see each other.

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The hiring people don't seem confused at all! They have a questionnaire for them and then an interview with music playing in the background and a bunch of questions about whether candidates might share information about their job in this circumstance or that.

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