"Are reds new?"

"Yes. Actually all of them were new but they were not being hid."

"People do not like reds and they do not like talking about reds. That's why Orvara did it."

"What'd they do exactly - something with the jobs -"

"Reds do sewage, garbage, and removing the dead, which are work that makes you polluted. Orvara argued that you can do the work with protection so you don't get polluted, and they drove out all their reds and have made it purple work."

"Drove them out?"

"Yes."

"Where will they go?"

"I don't know."

"They have to go somewhere."

Hug. "I think that your fathers are at work working on that."

"They were talking in Oahkar." She has written down a bunch of words.

'reds' and 'your sister' and 'riot' and 'talk with' and 'robots' and 'lose' and 'protect our daughter'.

"Am I in danger?"

"No."

"Then why would they have to protect me?"

"I don't know, I'm not blue, I just can't think how you'd be in any trouble over Orvaran reds."

"What's a robot?"

"Robots are machines that can do all kinds of work because they have sophisticated computers directing them."

"What do they have to do with this?"

"If we had robots then they could do red jobs instead of any people doing them."

"What about riots?"

"Reds tend to riot when people do things that suggest we are moving towards not needing reds anymore."

"Oh."

Squeeze.