Kamuor nods, still taking in the scenery of the valley city.

"Of course, a lot of them were abusing their powers flagrantly and I wasn't exactly stopping to chat about their opinions." 

"What were they doing?"

"A surprising number of the powers involved controlling other people and a disappointing number of the people who were granted powers used it to accumulate brainwashed sex slaves and money." 

"I guess that's the first place somebody'd go if they didn't want any kids and weren't very creative."

"Some of them were more creative. There was this one woman who could copy herself over onto other people temporarily--the copy would have her personality and appearance but the original's memories, I dunno all of what she did before Hiroko recruited her but I did get this one anecdote out of her about using her power to collect evidence on this--uh, I don't think you have the relevant social structure but this group of rich kids who had been getting away with stuff because of their connections." 

"That happens sometimes, yeah."

"Anyway she copied herself over them, which she could get close enough to do because she was hot, and used their memories to collect enough evidence that they couldn't just make it go away." 

"I guess that'd work, if you knew who it was. What were they doing?"

"Uh, inviting girls to parties, getting them drunk and taking advantage of them if I recall correctly."  

"Girls in particular?"

"Yeah, it was a gender-specific group and I think statistically speaking most people aren't sideways." 

"Oh, here either, but why was it a gender-specific group?"

"Oh, a bunch of things are arbitrarily sex-segregated for weird historical reasons." 

"Huh. Including crime! Huh."

"When it's sex crime, yeah. The thing is that we're fertile all year round, not just in spring, so making it so men and women had fewer excuses to be alone together cut down on reproductive infidelity." 

"Oh, that's interesting, and must be so distracting."

"From what I've found we generally feel more like Amentans do outside of spring than in spring, I think that level of--intensity--would be disadvantageous as the default." 

"Oh, it is, that's why there's all that uninhabited tropical and arctic territory. Calado has some tropics, at some point they might try giving them to you and seeing if you can fix that."

"I think I should be able to season pocket dimensions but I don't know if I can do outdoors as well; it might depend on what cues your bodies are taking." 

"I know it's not something simple like temperature or it would have been sorted out ages ago."

"It might have something to do with light, humans get more depressed during winter sometimes but artificial sunlight helps." 

"That might be it but it's nothing we can solve with lamps, I think the greens would have solved that."

"Well, I can tell my pocket dimensions to behave exactly like each of the seasons in succession, but I can't do much about the sun in places where the sun is real." 

"It'd also work if you had to pave the place and cover it in buildings, as-is that won't even work."