"I will send some over!"

What a good alien baby~ "Do you want me to hang out here while you get settled in or should I go pack now?"

"Maybe you could stay a little more?"

"Sure."

He is suspicious of plumbing!

Plumbing is really important! They don't have magic so they do this instead. The water is clean.

What do they do with it once it's dirty?

It gets piped away somewhere it can be filtered mechanically and by lots of useful plants until it's clean again.

He plays with faucets and resolves his suspicion and sings to himself and tests out the hotel bathrobes. "Your government is okay."

"I was pretty sure they'd manage this all right."

"Are there things you would not trust them to manage?"

"Well, for example, we do the hair color thing. I don't like that."

"I told him it was stupid."

"Yes you did."

"I think Bella could maybe actually make them stop it but it's not the thing I'm good at."

"How would she make them stop it?"

"If I knew I could do it too. She'd be good at talking to them. The way you're good at talking to me."

"I'm not sure I'm actually good at talking to the government but maybe I would be if I were different the ways she is from me."

"Why don't you think you're good at talking to the government?"

"Well, for one thing I've never tried it before and if I did I'd expect it to be hard because I'm grey and not even one of the grey occupations they sometimes listen to."

"Why would it matter what color you are?"

"People expect different castes to be good at different things."

"What things do they expect greys to be good at?"

"Running around and hitting things. Strategy and tactics. Looking really in shape all the time."

"I think Bella would probably be good at strategy and tactics. Very bad at the other things."