"They'd have to get out of their neighborhoods - there are a lot even just in Anitam, and more reds in other countries -"

"And all of them everywhere people would kill if they got angry?"

"Yes."

"Wow."

"They hate us."

"That doesn't seem very reasonable."

"They - it's because we're dirty."

"And that hurts? But - they could just say 'you go here, we go here', they don't have to hurt you."

"Well - they do. Not too much since we do the dirty jobs but they do."

"- but you think they'd still hurt you if they knew about the portal?"

"Yes. They want to find aliens. You don't know how to go faster than light so they will want it less but they'll still want it."

"Well, they could have it if they would not murder people."

"You don't mind? That I'm dirty?"

"No? I am not even sure what you mean, you don't look dirty."

"It's not exactly the same thing. It's like being dirty."

"If I understood it, would I hurt if I looked at you?"

"Not looking, not unless you were extra sensitive. Touching. Or touching things I touched."

"Huh. Then I guess I don't want you to explain because hurting for stupid reasons doesn't sound helpful."

"Nobody here will mind?"

"No. It - it isn't really noticeable at all. I still don't even know what you mean."

"We do dirty jobs and our parents did dirty jobs and so on and so on."

"That doesn't really seem like anyone's business."

"It bothers clean Amentans."

"I'm not saying they can't be bothered, just, being bothered is their problem. They can - ask you to do veils, or whatever a thing that's like veils is, but past that they're - at the edge of what's any of their business."

"The shoe covers, and staying in our neighborhoods."