"Anyway, not everyone can learn magic. I think eventually they're planning to figure out how to mass produce magic stuff that makes you smarter and then I guess we'll all be smarter, but."

"Jetskiing sounds fun," says the uncle.

They can go jetskiing!

Wheeeee!

And get ice cream and popcorn and other traditional excursion junk food! Someone compliments the kid on his hair.

"Thanks?" says the kid.

"It's really bright! I tried dying my hair once but it came out way duller than that."

"I don't have to dye it."

" - oh, are you one of the rainbow aliens - which job is purple -"

"I'm two," says Adro. "I don't have a job. I want to be a firefighter or a florist though."

"Is that what people call us, rainbow aliens?" snorts his uncle.

"Yeah, cuz you're pretty much humans but the hair thing. Firefighters and florists are the same category of job?"

      "Purple is like all of the jobs that actually keep the world running," says Dave.

"Damn. Good for you."

"I think firefighting's grey some places," says the uncle.

"It's like, real work, cops and soldiers, teaching, office jobs, being too creative and radical to work, and being too rich to work," Dave says helpfully.

Adro giggles.

"Huh. Well, the hair looks great."

"Wanna go to the zoo?" says Dave.

"Sure!"

The zoo is full of cute alien animals!!

Adro likes the cute alien animals a lot.

Oh good. "You have school tomorrow?"

"Yeah."

"All right, I can take you guys back to the bus stop. It was nice meeting you."

"Thanks for the -" Uncle gestures vaguely.

"It's the kind of stuff you're supposed to do on a day off school. I'd start a jetski rental in Calado if I could do the water safety spell. And wasn't banned from Calado. And had a bunch of jetskis."

"I didn't even press charges," says the uncle.

"Oh, I know, I'm not mad at you, dude. I'm not mad at them, either, with great power comes great responsibility and all that. But I miss Calado. Felt like I was doing something that mattered to people."