"All right. If either of you needs anything there'll be a concierge on call and the greys outside will know how to reach them. - the greys won't bother you, and we've specifically avoided having a conspicuous number of them relative to how many usually monitor this house while it's occupied with diplomatic guests."

"That seems intelligent, yes."

"We might need to move you or increase the guard once the news has broken but this seems sufficient for now."

"What sorts of things would be guarded against?"

"We've never had aliens before, so we don't know specific risk profiles. Some things we'd be worried about would be foreign agents who'd want to kidnap you so their country could have aliens instead, or people who'd want to hold you hostage to get things they want."

"That would not end well for them."

"I bet! We'd rather it not even come up, though."

"Of course."

"Anyway, there'll always be two greys by the front door, if you hold down the black button right there it'll let you speak to them without opening the door if that ever seems prudent."

"Thank you; I don't know when exactly that would come up, but if it does it's useful."

"Mm-hm! Any more questions we can answer for you before we clear out?"

"I don't have any right now."

"Okay. Bye! We'll see you tomorrow!" Everybody makes a point of waving at Bright Sorrow on their way out. Some of them go through the side or back doors.

Enthusiastic waving goodbye!

And then she will run around the house a bit more and then experimentally flop on every bed and pick the orangest. 

Maybe if they move to another house she can decorate one of the rooms!

None of the bedrooms is strikingly orange, but one has a nice picture of a sunset on the wall.

That's fine!

She lets her mom know what room they're gonna be sleeping in and turns into an orange blob for snuggling into the pillows.

(She'll definitely need to ask about decorating whichever future house.)

She pats her child on the head, and settles in at the desk to work through more of the language.

Can she get on the 'internet'?

She can! Presumably she has no idea how fast it's supposed to be and won't be suspicious. It starts her on Summary Bank; the article of the day is about crop rotation.

She does not know how fast it's supposed to be, no.

She plays around with this 'browser.' Is it obvious what fields she can enter input into, how to navigate - are there other places on the internet, like different newspapers? Can she find online newspapers?

There are news sites! Searching for news gets her the Halde Record as a first result.

What's that, and how recent is it?

It's the most popular news source in Voa, based in Halde Province, which contains the capital. The news is currently pretty quiet, both on the food problem and on the aliens; there are stories running about a new technique in fish farming, a water quality advisory, coverage of a municipal blue's divorce, the results of a singing reality show, sports news, a furniture recall, progress on a power outage, some financial crime by some bankers, the retirement of an orange entrepreneur who started a particular hospital network, and a section on third child awards, which have at this time of the spring been finalized (each third child award has a blurb about which parent earned it for what, and some have photos of the families).

'Tapa' was a neighbor, right? If she searches for 'Tapa newspaper about Voa'...

She can find Tapai newspapers. They have not very much news about Voa, though there's some mentions of it in anything to do with their border, and a mention of international train service delays, and a line in an obit that the deceased spoke Voan, and an article about international field trips for schoolchildren being on the decline due to someone's pet cost-cutting project, and some Voan celebrities among others in attendance at a big charity event, and a Voan scientist getting one of the four profiles in an article about a conference on neurology.

What about 'Voa red food'? She remembers that being mentioned in the truck...