She is giggling.

What's funny?

Just the way he said it. I think he's deflecting you, he didn't talk at all about whether it's stupid for us to do the hair color thing.

"You should stop doing the hair color thing," he clarifies, clinging.

"There are kind of a lot of interrelated hair color things. There's how we see one another and what schools we send children to and how we allocate credits and what the laws say. It would be complicated to change them, but maybe once we have rescued Bella you and they and some people here can sit down and come up with a plan."

"Once I teach you magic then you will know magic and you will not have to listen to us."

"It sounds like you are very smart and we'll have a lot to learn from you even once we've learned magic."

Pelape?

He wants the magic, almost certainly mostly for planets reasons, way more than he wants to have to listen to you about how to use it, but that's totally reasonable because we really need planets, honestly, and he might keep listening to you after anyway.

Lean. Snuggle. "Okay."

"Thank you! Do you know how you landed on this family in particular?"

"I think my targetting spell only sort of messed up and it found the nearest person who was like Bella but I don't know why it would have done that."

" - I see."

"Pelape explains things like Bella. Usefully. Most people don't. I thought maybe people here just did but Pelape said she is unusual."

Nod. "And you'd like to stay with her?"

"I am staying with her."

"It might make sense to have you and Pelape both staying somewhere where people who are learning magic and planning the rescue mission and learning about your people can come and go. This apartment is very nice but it's not meant for secret alien activities."

" - if you have somewhere pretty that would be good."

"Of course! What kind of thing do you like?"

Valinor was like this.

Blink blink. "I will see what I can do."

"That's why the scenery channel and music are on."

"I bet the prettiest places in Anitam would be delighted to host you. Would anyone want to come with you?" he asks Pelape.

"Visit maybe, move out no."

"All right. Let's get that set up, then." One of the people in the hallway fetches a pocket everything.