"If Connor and Zana go to live with their Grandma and Grandpa does that mean I can go to church by myself every day?"

"Nnno. You're too small to wander the city by yourself, I'm sorry. This is a downside of Connor and Zana leaving."

"Why am I too small to wander the city by myself."

"You could get lost? Or get hit by a car while crossing the street? Or get kidnapped, or reported to the police for being alone without a grownup or a bigger kid? Or, I don't even know, fall in a storm drain? I wouldn't let a normal kid your age wander alone, and you just got here and don't know how anything works."

"Can I go to the library on my own."

"You can't go anywhere on your own. I'm sorry. It's not safe."

"OK. So. Obviously all of our immediately available options are terrible."

"Can we get grandma and grandpa to take Maitimo too?"

"That makes you all targets again. Even if it didn't, I don't think so, what would we even say? We stole a baby alien from my employers?"

"We could lie! Maybe he's our brother!"

"You can't just spontaneously generate never-before-seen baby brothers who look nothing like you after your parents are already dead. That's... not how anything works."

"He could be our adopted brother. That we never told them about because we don't like them."

"I think it's not gonna work, Zana. We could, I dunno, send Maitimo to daycare or something, but I dunno if that would be any better for him?"

"Is it in a pretty place?"

"It depends? The pretty ones probably have waiting lists, but I guess we could check?"

"Thank you."

Sigh.

"All in favor of Connor and Zana going to live with grandma and grandpa?"

Connor raises his hand.

Zana does NOT.

Since his eyes are closed it's ambiguous whether he's pointedly not raising his hand or just doesn't know that's how people express opinions on this.

It's kind of a fake vote in that she will do it unless she gets unanimous opposition, which she has not, but it seems kind of like bad process anyway. 

"....all in favor say 'aye'."

"Aye."

"NAY."