He can answer questions!

Isel is at home waiting for them. "Hi, Aitim, hi - awwwww she's adorable - hi Lintalai!"

"Hi! Are you Isel?"

"Yep! Kan is my brother."

"That makes you my..."

"Aunt."

"Okay. Hi it's good to meet you!"

"It's good to meet you too! Aitim said you wanted to ask somebody questions about reds?"

"Yeah it's really complicated and sad and he said you worked on it."

"I do work on it."

"What do you do?"

"Uh, if people kill them I try to get those people in trouble and I ask them what things would help and try to do those."

"What do they say?"

"They didn't like their social workers much, they wanted it to be easier to order things online..."

"Social workers?"

"Uh, it's an orange job, they work with at-risk people and in poor communities, figuring out what those people are struggling with and trying to make it easier for them."

"Why didn't they like them?"

"It's not a popular job and I think there were a lot of people doing it for the wrong reasons."

"Like why?"

"They thought reds had an attitude problem and if they taught the reds better coping skills then they'd stop complaining about things, or they wanted to keep an eye on them, or they wanted to be mean to people who couldn't fire them for it, or they thought that if they were nice and friendly then the reds would like them and were angry when even though they were nice and friendly the reds did not like them."

"Oh. Aren't there any nice ones?"

"No one asked to keep theirs. I think maybe if you care a lot about reds working with them might make you too sad to keep doing it, since social workers do not really have the resources to fix the problems that they would see even if they wanted to."

"...then what are they for?"

"Keeping an eye on them, mostly. We're replacing them with cameras."

"That makes sense. Why was it hard to order things?"

"Most delivery companies won't deliver to the red district because they would have to waste a lot of time cleaning their truck afterwards and their delivery drivers wouldn't want to. There are special suppliers for groceries and some supplies, but they're not set up to take deliveries of anything a red might want."