an otome heroine in a red district
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She jumps them. 

They land in the lobby of the temporary housing unit she requisitioned for the purpose. It's...a government building, but for a government not under the impression that people needed the joy sucked out of them by a dismal gray environment. 

There's nobody behind the desk. Lying on the desk are a series of room keys, metal tabs attached to plastic dongles. Each key is on top of a trifold pamphlet explaining where each room is located in the building and what stuff is in them so they can sort out who gets which room. The housing unit has a single main kitchen and pantry, as well as a handful of communal spaces on the upper floors. 

"Now that I'm not teleporting people, I assume you're the person who needs the milk spell?" she says to the woman holding the baby. 

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"That's me, yeah."

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"Cool." 

Array up, tap. "There you go. Very cute baby, by the way."

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"Thank you. Um, do I need to keep shaving her head?"

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"I am ninety-five percent sure the answer is no but I have no idea why you would have to shave her head in the first place."

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"Her hair grows in orange."

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"--Oh. Yeah, no, that's completely fine."

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"Cool."

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"Should I draw unfortunate conclusions from that fact coupled with the fact that nobody here is standing next to you with significant-other body language going on." 

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"It's kinda unfortunate. But sometimes hair just does that, mine was white when I was a kid."

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"Yeah, I wasn't assuming for sure. Sorry people suck. She's still a really cute baby."

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The mom kisses her baby's little hand.

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Aww. 

"Who's here because they know things about the internet?" she asks slightly more loudly. 

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"Me," says another red, raising his hand.

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So she leads him off to talk to her IT people and let everyone else settle in. 

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"I do the splicing and IT for my neighborhood," he says. "But I'm probably not the world expert among reds, because I think Kashi wasn't casting that wide a net - needed people who'd go without their whole extended family and whatnot, and would actually go and not tell people -"

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"Makes sense. We could get by without any expertise at all if we had to, it'd just be harder."

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"What do you need to know?"

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"Uh, let's wait to ask that question until we get to the IT people."

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"Okay. Uh, they didn't tell us all that much, can I get the - basics?"

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"Sure. Our computers come from a completely different programming tradition, so they're going to work differently in a lot of ways." 

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"Hoo boy. I guess that makes sense. I was told you're magic aliens, too."

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"Yeah, a lot of our computers run on magic instead of silicon."

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"But you still program them about the same?"

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"There are some underlying differences but if you know how you can compensate for them."

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