"Well, fucking people for money is, but I think it'd be the same for terraforming."

"You can also just take them places so they see new things they might wanna make. Or recommend them books or whatever. Demons're cool."

"Makin' us planets, that's really cool."

"And they do the police and stuff - not often, the rule is like, you turn yourself in and then the courts respect that you were honest and admitted it and that the demons could spend their time on planets, but like people wouldn't turn themselves in if they didn't know the courts could demon it."

"And they help people recover old documents and rebuild historic sites and stuff, lotsa people are really into that."

"Green," yawns Cahmro.

"We gotta dupe of the house my family built when we first moved out to the frontier, it was pretty cool," says one of Dave's friends.

"Okay, that's cool."

"Would all demons be purple, cuz making stuff?"

"Eh, if they make art and shit that's green."

"Is, like, country music purple or green, I feel like it wouldn't work to have it be green."

"All music is green. I mean, if you do it professional, you can sing 'Pass the Pitcher' at a party or noodle around on a music app. I dunno what country music is."

" - it's, like, songs by real people about real people. I really don't think greens could do it. Like, you know, 'I'm sick of waiting tables, I'mma get out of this two-stoplight town and go to the city', that's a country song. 'Don't fucking offer me overtime, I'll work my shift and then I'll go get drunk', that's a country song."

"What's a stoplight?"

"Says which direction cars can go on a road."

"They don't already know that?"

"You change it so there's better traffic flow."

"Huh."

"We could go to a karaoke bar, people sing country songs, you'd get the idea."

"Most people sing 'em pretty terribly, though."

"Are there Elf karaoke bars?"

"All Elf bars are karaoke bars but there's no Elf country music."

"I won't know any of the songs," says Cahmro.

"Someone should, like, translate them, make it big on Amenta with purple music."

"Ha, yeah. There's catchy green stuff but it's not like you said."

"Yeah, you'd have pop music, that's different."

"I know a guy who could maybe pull that off, do a bunch of covers for Amenta."

"You should tell him to go for it!"

"The Amentans won't be like 'but you can't do a concert, you're not green'?"

"You're aliens, you can do whatever."

Aliens drink and talk about which songs they'd translate and how to make sure no one thinks they're alien-equivalent-of-green because ugh.

"Wear a purple hat."