"...okay..."

"And if you didn't want to be blue we would work something out."

"Dear," says Nertel from inside. 

"I think it is fine for me to be blue but it would have been fine for me to be most things. Not grey."

"Oh, yeah, that'd be terrible."

"Yeah I can't even walk and none of the things they can do are fun. Maybe dancing but I can't even walk."

"Staging a military coup would be fun, and that's grey!"

"Dear."

"That doesn't sound fun."

"Sounds kinda fun. You could make Orvara stop the thing, that way."

"I dunno enough about the thing to know if that would be a good thing to do."

"Well the reds are gonna die."

"Lintalai is one, Kefin."

"Well some of the reds were one. And there might have been babies, even."

"It's too early for babies."

"Etilia in my math class was home today because his mom was in the hospital having a baby."

" - okay, but that's early, it's mostly too early for babies."

"Poor reds."

"Yeah."

"Are they actually even that icky, I looked up a picture once and it wasn't that icky but the picture wasn't polluted."

"I don't think they're icky to look at but if they were close enough to touch you -"

Shiver. "Yeah, I guess."

"I don't have that thing."

"Don't have a pollution instinct? Ick."