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Elsseth's position is three cities away from her mother's. This isn't uncommon, but it can occasionally be inconvenient.
She has a matter she would prefer advice on, and now is a good time to travel; she calls up a set of dancers, and--
everything should have gone fine. But someone came in with a minor emergency, not having been notified of her visit, and ran right into a key definer.
She vanishes.
She does not reappear in her mother's city.
The beeple do not have a history of torturing reds, maybe reds will be less untrustworthy to beeple than to non-red Amentans.
The reds may pollute them, or try to hold them hostage, or something.
Beeple are difficult to imprison if you don't know how.
Yes, but surely if they tried it would be distressing, and they do consistently murder roboticists and might murder beeple if they thought beeple would help roboticists.
The beeple do not have to tell them that.
Nobody ever is supposed to tell them about roboticists but they find out anyway.
Well, if beeple get murdered by reds they won't be able to say the Tapai didn't warn them.
The reds might tell them anything they think will work out well for them even if it's not true, and it seems like the beeple want to talk to reds because they don't trust clean Amentans, who would be the only way they could double-check.
It's not that the beeple don't trust clean Amentans it's that they have a policy of communicating with both sides of any dispute before intervening.
The clean Amentans will be happy to let them confirm with reds that reds would like to go live on their own planet but really don't want there to be any unrestricted chat.
See, they don't have any reason to mistrust clean Amentans by default, but not wanting unrestricted chat seems really suspicious.
Reds are just really awful.
Beeple are skeptical.
Maybe Tapa will look really hard and find some less terrible reds?
Having Tapa filter what reds they talk to completely defeats the point.
...they definitely should not go into a red district.
Possibly they could go on the internet if they learned to read Tapap.
Why shouldn't they go into a red district?
They would have to decontaminate after. They're already overlooking the thing where the queen and some workers were in a red interview booth in the same way they have to overlook birds landing in the red district, to avoid adding insult to injury, but they normally do take that excruciatingly seriously. Also, if the beeple were in danger in the red district (as the Tapai suspect they would be!) and danced their way out, reds might see how the dance goes. That would be AWFUL. Reds might go ANYWHERE.
Maybe they can start by checking if Amentans can teleport at all, it seems like knowing that would simplify a lot of things.
They can bring in some dancers to learn!
They're not going to teach the dancers how to teleport in full generality but there's a relatively simple one that can be performed by one person and teleports you five feet to the left.
Some dancers (grey) come in and attempt the steps.
The steps are fairly simple! No challenge at all for a trained dancer.
The greys do not teleport.
That is very sad.
The beeple are genuinely sorry that Amentans cannot teleport.
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