"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."

"Opinion of the chair the ayes have a better case. All in favor of trying to send Maitimo home despite the fact that trying to do so might be putting all of us in danger, say aye."

"AYE."

"Aye but I wanna be in another state when it happens."

"Aye."

"Vote is unanimous. May fortune favor the foolish. If there are no closing comments I declare this council session ended."