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She hates her life. It's spring and she's digging a latrine when she should be home with her baby and if she deserts and is lucky enough not to just be shot for that then in a month she'll abruptly cease to have a baby.
Shovel bites dirt. Dirt goes in pile around the red flag. And repeat, and repeat.
Perks:
Pretty in Pink: Your caste is “Pink.” Everyone can immediately tell this by looking at you. Pinks are a magical caste that doesn’t play by the rules. Pinks are completely immune to pollution, and can therefore interact with reds or do red work with no censure (although objects in a pink’s possession can be polluted, including clothing, which means no one will bat an eye at you walking around naked just in case, no matter how formal the setting). Pinkness occasionally occurs spontaneously in the general population, and all a pink’s children will be pink regardless of the other parent’s caste. Further aspects of this perk will depend on your ERO
There is a short terrible Summarybank article that repeats the information in the perk description.
She can't exactly wake up the Anitami red for questioning, she doesn't speak the language.
......she goes on Seenit and makes a throwaway account and finds the least gatekept /castepolitics section and ignores the "no reds" policy and makes a post that just says "Pinks: discuss".
A couple of comments trickle in; one is that walking around naked all the time would be hot and another is jealous of pinks for being able to wear red hats without there being Unfortunate Implications.
Well.
She can... go sit out of her tent in the buff and see if anyone has anything to say about that, it's warm enough.
No one appears to have anything to say about it, although some of the relatively few greys who look in the direction of the undertaker tents give her appreciative looks. Open, unselfconscious appreciative looks, the kind you give a perfectly normal pretty person in spring, not the furtive or followed-up-with-horrified-realization kind clean people sometimes give reds.
She laughs.
She checks her everything to see if there's anything else in the Seenit thread, but then - wonders suddenly what this means for Katin's credit, if it's hereditary -
She checks her credit lease account.
Apparently pink credits are cheaper than red ones, because that's what it says, pink credit, paid off completely.
She emails her mom about putting in for a discharge. Her mom says it's about time.
She puts in for her discharge.
Gosh, that was fast.
She hops in the cab of her army truck naked to drive it back into Tapa and drop it off.
That's pretty fun.
She hands in the truck and gets a ride to her district from a red army driver.
The army driver doesn't comment on the fact that she's naked either, although she does steal occasional glances.
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