"Why does that work?"

" - I'm not actually sure."

"Oh. Who would know?"

"Your grandmother, probably, she's been getting into the field and published a few theology papers recently."

...nod. "Okay."

"I could look for books on it for you but they're mostly very abstruse and complicated."

"I will try asking her about it first."

"Okay. Bedtime story?"

"Yes."

And they read their baby girl a bedtime story. 

And she sleeps.

They get back online. 

Biyan is taking red children hostage to make their parents work as a stopgap while they try to train replacements.

They don't sleep much.

She has blue food coloring and peas for breakfast.

And they drop her off at school.

School is not discussing Biyan at all. Hm.

School is discussing multiplication and the history of mining.

Fine.

Do her parents get her on this day?

Nope!

"Hi. Can you tell me about theology?"

" - sure. It's a big field. What exactly are you interested in?"

"How stuff gets cleaned."

"Okay. So there's some disagreement - less about whether the things we do are adequate for cleaning, more about why they are adequate."

"How do people agree about whether and not why?"

"Well, the current procedures are sufficient - everyone agrees on that, they were sort of established by stacking all the pieces that there was a good argument might be essential - but people disagree tremendously on how much of them are necessary. There are some countries where it's not a capital crime to do a shorter decontamination - it's still a serious crime, because it impacts international confidence, but they think that two hours are sufficient and so they're not willing to execute people for doing only that. It has only come up once or twice but the fact it's on the books is occasionally a point of contention."

"Five hours is a very long time."