"It's been an eventful last few years. Do you think you might want to be on the council someday?"

"Maybe. I haven't decided. I like going to work with my dads."

"I heard about that. They are lucky dads, not everyone gets to take their baby to work once she is big enough to get bored and wander off."

"It's not boring! Well, Kan's is sometimes, it's more emails than meetings. But then I just read or something."

"Does Aitim never answer emails?" 

"I dictate them to my secretary. It is more fun."

Fen smiles happily at him.

"It takes longer than typing if you are fast at typing. But it's more interesting to listen to."

"And I could do it all day whereas I cannot answer emails all day."

"You would have meetings in between! You have a lot of those!"

"Meetings are fun!"

Giggle.

"How are you liking school?"

"It's okay but most of the other kids have not gotten to be very interesting yet."

"Oh dear. I hope they are more interesting once they are older. Are the teachers interesting?"

"Yeah the teachers are pretty good."

"Oh good." Smile.

What a boring famous grandfather. "What was school like when you were my age?"

"I dyed my hair purple and attended classes about the greatness of the Oahk Empire and listened to the radio a lot."

Oh that's interesting. She perks up. "Was it really different looking purple?"

"I didn't really know at the time, I did not let it grow out blue until I was older than that. And many of the people in that town did know, so they were probably not treating me like they'd have treated a purple child. It was still quite different once I could let it be blue."

"Like how?"

"People were less likely to ask me to do things or get my attention to ask for directions or anything like that, people made a point of acknowledging me when I walked into a room - even if it was just looking at me and nodding - people were less rude but also less honest - of course lots of other things were different by the time I could let it be blue."

Nod nod. "The Empire had to fall."

"It was a very bad Empire and we were well rid of it."