That'd help a lot, yeah! Thank you.

No problem! Let us know if you need anything else.

Will do!

Ude arrives as promised with a car to take both aliens to visit her grandsons.

Bright's now a very excited boy! (His mom's still girl-shaped but is a different enough girl, especially given that his mom hasn't shown up on a publicly posted video yet.)

Into the car they go! "I'm a little concerned that the car will be conspicuous," Ude says. "It's very unusual to travel around by car - one thing for a diplomatic guest house, another for my house. So I've borrowed a wheelchair to get Bright Sorrow into the house with, that's a good enough reason not to have taken the train even if most people would have gone with the accessible bus. Is that all right?"

"That's okay! And I shouldn't be too heavy at all for the wheelchair..."

"Yup, the chair should be able to handle it. Maybe Combing Sorrow should push you so I'm not conspicuously having too much trouble with it."

"That sounds good!"

"Oh, should I have an Amentan name?"

"I wasn't planning to introduce you to the neighbors, but sure, if you'd like one! Have you run across any that sound nice?"

"I like names with 'nau' sounds! My human name, Nausicaa, has one."

"Hmm, blue names with 'nau'. Ivenau?"

"It's pretty! What's it mean?"

"I'd need to look it up, I thought of it because it's one of my cousins' names." She pulls out her pocket everything. "Apparently it means 'riverside settlement'."

"That's appropriate! If I need a blue name I'll be Ivenau, then."

And eventually they reach Ude's house, which is accessible via a sloped path for the wheelchair she's stowed in the back of the car.

And Bright can be wheeled in!

Inside a couple of blue boys are playing cards. They look up when the party enters the room. "Hi alien!" says the two-year-old.

"He has a name," says the three-year-old. "Hi! Grandma says you're all cooped up till they find you a school and got sick of it."

"Hi! And yeah. Being inside all the time's boring. I'm Bright Sorrow when I'm being a shoggoth or Nausicaa Uzun as a human, or maybe Ivenau as an Amentan. I have lots of names!"

"What're you guys playing?"

"We're playing Spinsquare," says the two year old. "It's better with more people though -" He puts his hand back into the main deck, swipes his brother's, and shuffles. "We can teach you how if you want! I'm Vaund and this is Evkan."

"Hi Vaund and Evkan! And yeah, I'd love to learn!" He bounces over.

They teach him the game; it's a bluffing game, but not complicated as those go.

He's exceptionally good at bluffing!

Then he can win many of the hands! Ude brings them all a tray of fruits and veggies and crackers and dip. Vaund and Evkan nibble on these between deals.

He has fun playing, and doesn't nibble on food. (He's explained a few times he should really be eating about a fifth to a third as much as Amentan kids do, so.)