"Noticed by who?"

"By - people who - by - um, visitors."

"Do they want some too?"

"- we aren't telling them, about the portal."

"Oh."

"Which is why we don't want the things to be noticed."

"Would they want to know about the portal?"

Nelen swallows. "Yeah."

"But you don't want them to?"

"Yeah."

"And you don't have to follow the law since you can't vote."

"...that's not the rule in Anitam."

"But - hmm, the law can be wrong. A law that says you have to follow it but can't vote is wrong. You can break it. They might get mad but you would not be doing anything wrong-wrong, just law-wrong."

"...we will still be in trouble if we get caught."

"Okay. But you aren't doing a bad thing."

"They will be angry we hid the portal."

"Then they should have let you vote."

"We think that if they find out, and are angry at us, they will kill us all."

"Well. That's - why?"

"- they will be very angry."

" - and they don't understand how to be angry without killing people?"

"Not if reds are the ones they are angry at."

" - you could just all leave."

"- maybe through here. But that's only one neighborhood."

"Why can't everybody come through here?"