Okay! Not the answer she was expecting! Fuck! Man, she is gonna have her work cut out for her on this reds thing. 

...She hesitates over doing more research on the reds thing, then decides it can wait until she has a place she can soundproof for when she inevitably has a fit over how they're treated. 

What unsolved medical problems do Amentans have, let's try that instead. 

Some people have sensitive hormonal systems and can be thrown into unseasonable spring if they travel for even just a few days or spend too much time underground. They have old age and diseases thereof. There are assorted infectious diseases which they can treat more or less well and have very aggressive policies against doing anything to spread. They don't know how to repair all possible injury damage. Some people have mental health problems. Apparently Amentans don't have fixed skin tones and don't normally sunburn; instead they "brown" and people who don't brown right get a lot of cancer. They don't have a cure for cancer, though they're decent at treating it. The eugenics boards helpfully supply lists of hundreds of conditions you aren't allowed to reproduce if you have and hundreds more you need to screen your embryos for if you carry.

She doesn't have a problem with screening embryos but man, fuck eugenics boards. 

The browning thing is sorta interesting, she indulges in a handful of seconds of fantasizing about Amenta making contact with Earth in a way that super freaked out a buncha racists. 

Do people who don't brown right get more skin cancer than white people? Do they not have sunscreen? 

People who don't brown have an albino-like cancer rate, correlated similarly with how religiously they use sunscreen. Some people are stuck permanently brown, which isn't a big deal at all unless you're an actor or a model or really want to emulate certain fashions which require particular skin tones.

Heh, interesting. 

Well. She can fix arbitrary things, or for that matter replace all of someone's melanin with chlorophyll so they get calories instead of cancer, or...but that only works for people who are hers, or who live somewhere that's hers and don't leave. She makes a note to talk to some pharmaceuticals people, because if she makes a chemical and someone analyzes it, that scales independently of her. 

She makes a challenge to herself of making notes of things to do with her powers in Oahkar, consulting McElroy for vocabulary the app doesn't wanna give her yet, then goes back to playing with the language-learning app for a while, then decides to write up a partial dictionary with all her vocabulary in Oahkar so far with English translations for anyone who wants to learn English, then goes back to looking things up. How is this society stratified, aside from "castes: exist"

Castes exist a lot. Credit countries have pretty low wealth inequality because if you have extra cash beyond yea much you just dump it all immediately into child credits - people with higher incomes do also have nicer houses but they don't have six nicer houses and a boat for no reason, they just put pictures of themselves surrounded by their six or ten children up on their website to brag instead. Class is much more of a thing in permissions countries and much much more of a thing in two-per countries, where there's a substantial cultural gulf between purples who've been farmers for a hundred years and purples who go to fancy engineering schools to design the next generation of bubble wrap. Nepotism, particularly in blues, seems expected. There is a fair amount of intercaste bickering about emerging fields; apparently yellows won computers a while ago and got a population boom to go with it, which is why people make jokes about yellows all looking the same.

...Hm. She has a lot of feelings about all this but they're sorta murky and mixed-up and she doesn't super have a solution to any of this. But it's good to know. 

She spends a bunch more time randomly wikiwalking. 

Yvaltan theatrical traditions, moon colonies (there are several moons, and several colonies), vertical gardening, train schedule timing, end-of-spring pet euthanasia, artisanal coffee, crackpots who think oysters can predict the future!

Several moons! Neat! Oyster crackpots! Amusing in a way comparable to astrology!

Pet euthanasia! Eurgh! Do they...not have a concept that you shouldn't have a pet if you're going to lose interest like that...

The opinion exists but it's widely considered silly and not very compassionate to people who need something to hold to get through spring.

What about being compassionate to the poor animals. 

...Do they have vegetarians? 

Some people can't eat meat for health reasons and ethical vegetarianism has been invented but is super fringe.

Hmm. What about environmentalism. 

People care about air and water quality, and about resource extraction sustainability, and there's some handwringing about how you can't actually replace a natural place and this should be priced in when people are talking about developing on places that aren't bringing in that much in tourist revenue (or can't take much tourist traffic without getting less nice) but certainly will never bring in any tourist revenue if turned into paper mills. Some biologists try to catalog and get genomes of things before they are all dead. But otherwise no.

Yeesh. At least her poor abused planet has people who care about it for its own sake. Although she supposes she isn't sure that caring about air and water quality doesn't do more actual good on net. 

This is all so unfamiliar. She's going to feel much better when she at least has a place she can properly use again. 

Delin doesn't offer her the title to a house that night.

Naturally. Anyway, she can cope alright in the meanwhile; she's still objectively much better off than when she was sixteen and hadn't gotten her power yet, and she managed to be okay then. She just needs time to adjust. 

She doesn't hole up in her guest room; she comes out and socializes with Kamuor at no worse than introvert time intervals, and she eats, but she spends all the rest of her time cramming as much language and culture into her head as possible, one way or another, switching between tasks as needed. 

Kamuor's cook feeds her three meals a day and seems too nervous to talk to her; Kamuor herself takes time off from work to be available.

Delin says she has a house picked out the following afternoon, would Rhonda like to look at the pictures?

Sure! 

(Rhonda doesn't super care about the pictures, she's hardly picky especially right now, but coming off as desperate would be a bad move and she certainly doesn't object to looking at pictures.)

Here are pictures of a nice house; it's freestanding, though it's still quite close to the neighboring houses, and it's across the street from a subway station entrance and the next block has a bunch of yellow businesses.

Perfect. 

Then Delin will get underway on buying it for her! That will take a day or two to own outright as opposed to just having permission to move in.

Waiting that long is no trouble at all, especially with as much language study as she still needs to do. 

She gets a legal identity; she should memorize this long number.

--Okay! She can do that! Why is she doing that.