"How'd you get really rich?"

"Well I'm not."

"You get really rich if you're super good at your job."

"Like making very yummy mac and cheese?"

"I guess if you ran the best mac and cheese restaurant in the whole wide world you could get rich like that?" says the grey uncertainly.

"Are there very good mac and cheese restaurants in the world?

"I dunno, I just always have it at home."

"Probably at a really nice restaurant they will make you mac and cheese if you ask even if it's not on the menu."

Fika nods.

"I can't wait to try it!"

Fika is happy to keep chatting and climbing with the Amentan kids for as long as the mac-and-cheese-home one is there. 

Mac-and-cheese-one is the grey and will, when collected by her dad, ask to have Fika over, and their dad says that sounds great and shows Fika the way to their apartment. They don't go in through the window.

Fika is really confused about this!

"Why don't you climb to get in like on the tree?"

"- there's stairs," says the kid. "And no handholds!"

"There are some handholds! It's not as hard as the other building I climbed."

She points out a window at a building that looks like the one she climbed.

"Looked sorta like that."

"...but we could fall if we tried to climb it and there's no belaying equipment."

"Oh! That sounds bad. I guess I've had more practice than you and also its not as bad if I fall."

"Also I don't know what belaying equipment is."

"It's safety stuff for if you go climbing! It's like, ropes and harnesses and stuff. I dunno, I do arcball and track instead."

"What are those?"

Fika sorta thinks the climbing equipment seems silly but she doesn't want to hurt the Amentan's feelings.

"Arcball is a game and track is running and jumping."

"Is arcball fun?"

"Yeah but there's a lot of waiting in it. I'm trying to be more patient but it's hard when a round goes on a long time."

"Being patient is really hard!"

"Aren't you a billion years old, I was hoping it would get easier!" exclaims the kid, as they reach the apartment door and open it up.

"I think I just got better at being okay when I'm not very good at it."

"What does that mean?" The kid flops on the couch in the apartment. Her dad goes to the kitchen and starts putting together something that looks like it might not be mac and cheese at all.

"I feel bad when I'm trying to wait for a thing and sometimes I feel worse if I don't do things while I'm waiting and I don't really 'cpect that to change and don't think I'm bad or need to change 'cause of it."

"Also is your big Amentan making mac and cheese?"

"No, I think he's doing something else. Dad what's for dinner tonight?"

"Chicken spinach pie."

"Oh. That's pretty good too."

"I figured it'd be a good time to have it since your mama's still in flight. There's enough for your friend too - what's your name -"

"Fika!"

"I thought your big Amentan was making mac and cheese?"