"So they don't do it because they don't do it?"

"More or less."

"When I was imagining schools teaching it I was imagining everybody filling one out for practice and turning it in."

"I don't know if schools do that."

"Maybe there should be an experiment."

"I will suggest it if they haven't tried it already."

Bounce.

"It will be a good experiment."

"I am very impressed with how you learned how we do those things and how to propose ideas you like in a way that fits with how we do things."

Giggle.

"We have a couple weeks before we were planning to go back to work," Kan says the next day. "Maybe we could get out of the city a little, go up to the summer house."

Aitim looks uncertain.

" - it's three hours back into the city if something catches on fire."

"Yes."

"During which you'd have wi-fi."

" - true."

"...aren't firefighters purple?"

"Yes. Grey in some places. He means metaphorical fires."

"Ohh. Is the summer house nice? It's not even summer."

"Summer house is a very old phrase. Long ago, before air conditioning had been invented, people who could afford it had one place to live in when it was cold and one to live in when it was warm, so they didn't have to be in intolerable weather. Then air conditioning was invented, and it's much better. But people will still sometimes call the house their family owned for hot weather their summer house."

"Ohh. Is it nice though?"

"Yeah, it's lovely. Right next to a ski resort, which means the mountain looks very natural, not developed-on."

"Cool."

"During the occupation the Oahk Empire never really got a handle on the mountains - they're hard to get to - and it is where our grandfather was illegally born."