"I don't think they have thoughts. You have to have thoughts to be bored."

"Oh."

"If they did have thoughts they might puzzle over mysteries like 'is the sun getting lower in the sky' or 'is this grass tasty' and find them as interesting as people find people problems."

"...bunnies can see and taste just fine, can't they?"

"They seem to get by, but I don't know how much interpreting is involved in senses."

"Huh, okay."

"It's sweet of you to think of the rabbits," says her grandmother.

"...we were just talking about a rabbit book, what else would I think of?"

"Oh, I don't know, I don't know what else was in the book."

"Flu."

"Ah huh."

"To kill the rabbits, because they were not welcome."

"It was a very clever solution. They did a good job."

"Uh-huh."

"How long do you two have off work?" 

      "I was going to take three months. Aitim was going to start working from home as soon as that makes sense, possibly next week..."

His mother clucks disapprovingly. "Are you worried about money?"

     "No, no, just have things we need to do."

"What do you do?"

"I work in the Foreign Affairs office making sure that other countries understand what Anitam is doing and how to work with us."

"I work in criminal justice policy, looking at how well we are doing at enforcing our laws and whether the laws are accomplishing the things we wanted them to."

"...Are they?"

"Most of them are pretty good! If all of them were good then I would think we were being too conservative about trying things."

"Why wouldn't it be good if they were all good?"

"Well, before we try a law we know some things about whether it might work, but not all the things. If we never tried a law until we were completely perfectly certain it would work, we would be very slow to try laws. Instead we make very certain the law will not be very bad, and if we are not sure whether it will be so-so or great, we try it."

"But shouldn't you stop as soon as you know it's bad?"

"You don't want to change the laws around too much too quickly, because people might end up confused about what the law is. But once you're sure, yes, of course, you start planning the change."

"Oh, okay."