"I noticed. But not much older."

"At least she didn't ask what rape was?"

"Doesn't that probably mean she already knew?" Sigh. "I just - why didn't Orvara push it back a couple years after the Savo fiasco, why -"

Hug. Sigh. "Good night."

"Night."

Cherries for breakfast!!!!

It's a good thing she found something she likes! "Do you want to spend today at your grandparents' or with us?"

"I wanna try going with you today."

"Okay!" Off they go. Kan supervises some blue interns and a large yellow staff and has fewer meetings than Aitim and periodically steps out to talk with someone about the Orvara thing.

She follows him around and meets interns and takes notes!

Everyone thinks she is adorable. These ones are looking through exhaustive case studies of crimes in order to figure out why people committed them, and these ones are looking at statistics in a couple cities that were testing programs, and these ones are organizing a study on eyewitness identification.

Statistics are interesting!

Awwwww! Statistics are useful! For example, say that one year in a city there were 9 of a crime, and then the next year 12, and then the next year 4! Does that mean anything, or is it just luck? Statistics can tell you the answer.

Cool!

Kan's take on Orvara, when asked, is that it'd be no good to be short on reds and maybe Isel'll fret over them less once she's had to go near them, which she'll need to for the logistics. "I don't really know how many we're short but a couple hundred could get killed pretty quickly if they make trouble so we may as well import that many, right? I don't want to do this again."

(Lintalai writes down her question.)

And he approves reports and meets with his interns to go over their work and asks them lots of questions and gives them new assignments and then he scoops up Lintalai.

(The question is 'do we kill reds a lot, why'.)

"Not usually. They have a higher murder rate than any other castes but it's still not all that high. But if they riot, then yes, the police retaliate, and that can end with quite a lot of people dead, and we're concerned they might riot over events in Orvara or if they heard that we might do that here."

"When they riot what do they actually do? Do they just run around touching things?"

"No. They murder everyone in a roboticist lab, or they sneak to the blue district and burn houses down."

"Oh."

"They usually try not to kill people when they're doing the second thing."

"Okay."

Squeeze.