She asks each one whether they want to spring an average amount, or very little. She patiently works on them, getting more used to this minimal and delicate kind of Enkindling each time.

...She rejects the green and asks him to come back tomorrow. I have to think about your case a bit more...

"- is something wrong with me? Wronger than it just being spring -"

No. You are subtly different than the others, a different combination of complicating factors that makes your spring slightly trickier, and I want time to consider it before moving.

The green looks at Ruan, who ushers him away and figures out a replacement time slot the next day. The green hits on Ruan. Ruan turns him down and sends him off.

Some Amentans will be straightforward and easy to de-spring now. I could do sixty or more each day and speed up even more as time passes. Others, like him, will not. The latter are more interesting and likelier to expand my understanding, but will take longer. I can tell you which are which, among the people I've been people-watching the most.

"The greens who are following along could maybe use that to make predictions."

Yes, the mysterious practice of Statistics. That sounds potentially useful. I can also judge many, many more people for simplicity or complexity in a single day, if gathering that information seems like a good use of time.

"Let's see if anything jumps out from the existing data before trying that."

She goes down the list with him, sometimes needing prompting like 'the one with the hair clip', or pictures. About four fifths of these people would be simple to de-spring, apparently.

"Once you've thought about someone complicated will they take longer than everyone else?"

Probably more time, but not more energy.

I should do this to a red and a blue. The castes are subtly different.

"- getting a red here may be difficult."

I can go to them for this.

"That would be much worse. Is it important for anything besides de-springing more reds?"

Her tail twitches in what might be an upset manner.

A fuller picture of things never hurts.

"I'll... look into it. One will do?"

It may be necessary to see many for a full understanding, eventually. 

"I'll try to get you a batch to drive in after everyone else will have left."

Why do people hate them?

"...they're unclean."

That explains the separation, the aversion, the disgust. But I fail to see why it must lead to outright hate.

"I don't think most people do hate them outright."

The way you think of them seems... Distinct? Something that stands out like a lone tree on a field of grass. It doesn't follow what else I know obviously. There is so much about you I still don't understand. I can only hope to learn.

"I don't have the outside perspective on my thoughts so I couldn't say."

I don't either. Introspection is a worthy skill and not one I possess in abundance. It's just that something seems sad and wrong about it, much like the factory farms.