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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.
Beeple are also friendly! So friendly! Isn't ecology so cool?
Yup. Although fieldwork anywhere with much diversity means permaspring. Ew.
Beeple don't have to worry about permaspring and are delighted to do fieldwork.
They can tromp around rainforests and arctic areas!
Oooh.
Political beeple continue working on trade.
Tapa is delighted to be rid of unverifiable supplies and have tantalizing alien ones. Everyone is really excited. They assemble roboticists.
Aliens are likewise enthusiastic about exotic foreign food! They are polite enough not to talk about how exciting eating "polluted" food is in front of Amentans, for the most part.
If they do mention it they will get winces.
They are careful not to send any plumbers or coroners or red-haired people across.
Amentans really appreciate that.
The red-haired queen who was the first point of contact has been given an extra daughter-allotment for her suffering, by the way.
That seems like a reasonable thing to do and they are glad there was a way to compensate her and if they can help they would be glad to.
Maybe later.
Okay.
Beeple figure out what they need to know about a planet to design a teleport dance to get there.
Tapai astronomers throw themselves at this problem with intense enthusiasm.
Meanwhile several beeple now have good enough Tapap to deal with the prisoners.
The prisoners have been milling around unhappily eating honeyful food and talking amongst themselves.
The interviewers would like to discuss what the fuck they were thinking.
The purple thought it was a red! She acted in self defense! The red was not in its neighborhood and was way too close and wouldn't stop trying to do things!
"Things" is too broad a category for someone to reasonably not do.
It kept trying to move around and wasn't even wearing shoe covers and she thought it was a red!
They realize Amentans have an irrational dehumanization of reds but could she please at least use pronouns she would use for a person for her victim now that she knows her victim is not a coroner or a plumber?
She thought she was a red.
They can understand having a violent startle reaction but beating someone until they can't move is a terrible idea.
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