but didn't they snatch bodies

they're little slugs. they can't see or hear or anything. now they take magic bodies or find consenting people but then it was take the person you're assigned or just

be in a pool of mud forever until you die

wow that sucks

yeah

i guess some people are still mad at them but like

people play the hand they're dealt, you know

yeah I get it

The bus route starts up again but it is only transporting aliens who wish to do tourism in Calado.

The road remains guarded against would-be escapes of Calador citizens but they allow the aliens for now.

The aliens make very little trouble. They bring money they got traded in Tapa and go to coffee shops and order coffee and go to the beach and play volleyball and go swimming.

Calado does in fact have places to do those things.

People follow the aliens around and take their pictures and want to know where they're from.

"It's called Limbo. It's actually really lousy, people go there when they die in Revelation and it doesn't have weather or arable soil or anything. But after you die once you can't die twice so we're allowed to come here."

"Our crime rate's not that bad."

"It seems like aliens might be targets."

"You're interesting," concedes this random orange lady.

"And it's cool to be here! What do you do -"

"I teach purple three year olds history."

"Neat. My wife was a teacher back when we were alive." He points at one of the volleyball players.

"What do you do now?"

"Oh in Limbo she took up painting and I got really into writing thousands and thousands of extra dialogue trees for characters in rpgs and now that I'm alive again I've been trying to set up a mod so people can play with 'em and she's been painting new places."

"You're alive again?"

"We're, uh, not in Limbo again? We can interact with the world of the living again?"

"Well, congratulations. Do you like it here?"

"The beach is great, I missed the beach. Everyone's been so friendly. Do you like it here?"

"Not really but we can't leave."

"Can't you vote for people who would let you leave?"

"Blues are kind of maniacs. They say things, but the things never happen, except really boring things they don't have much competition over like 'I will continue to not destroy the train system'."