"Okay."

"Your parents are at work trying to get an agreement to let Orvaran reds come here."

"That's good. They have to go somewhere."

"Yes."

"What're you doing?"

"I've been reading what people are saying about Orvara's procedures and whether they are safe."

"Are they?"

"I think so. Anitam is demanding the right to go and check and make sure, I don't know whether Orvara will let us."

"It is not safe for reds, is it?"

"No, it is not."

"Who would it be safe or not for?"

"The purples taking their jobs."

"What would happen to the purples?"

"Well, if the work is not safe then they might not stay clean working it."

"That matters for them and it also matters for whether other countries would be willing to do the same thing."

"Are other countries gonna do that?"

"I would like them not to but some of them might think about it."

"There are lots of bad things in the world, because it is a very big world. I do not think it is a good idea to worry too much over all of them."

"I don't like that nobody told me there were reds before a bunch of them had a bad thing happen."

"I don't think I'd like that either."

Lintalai sighs and opens a book.

Her books are interesting and do not reference reds.

She will consult Isel about that sort of thing.

"Where's Afen, did he stay home with uncles?"