"Oooh! Can it climb things? Give hugs? Make mac and cheese?"

"It can give you recipes for mac and cheese? And ideas for where to go climbing. And text your friends to come over and hug you."

"Those sound like really useful things!"

"Yeah, pocket everythings are great, you should get one if you have money."

"Oh, I don't have money. Some Amentan said I could get some by painting more?"

"Like green painting or like purple painting?"

"It was blue and green."

"- blue painting? - I don't mean what color was the paint I mean what color was the job."

"Oh, do you mean hair color?"

"Yeah."

"Why does that affect painting?"

Fika thinks for a bit.

"Oh! Do you use the same types of paint for your hair and your buildings?"

"No, it's like, greens do arty painting and purples paint stuff so it will have paint on it."

"Don't arty paintings also have paint on them?"

"Yes but so it will look like a flower or something."

"Oh. Your buildings can't have flower paintings on them? That sounds sorta sad."

"I dunno who'd do those actually. Dad -"

"Probably depends on the details," says the dad. The mac and cheese is warm; he puts a fork in it and gives it to Fika. Chicken pie goes in the oven.

Fika forgets about her questions because she is trying the new exciting looking food her friend recommended! 

It is... leftover macaroni and cheese :o

Delicious!

"This is really good!"

"Thanks!" says Dad Grey.

Nom nom nom nom. Fika is going to eat all of it even though it's a lot of food for an amalien.

The chicken pie takes a bit to bake and then the greys eat that.

Fika recognizes that smell!

"Did a bird fly into your fire when you were cooking??"

"No? It's just chicken pie," says Kid Grey.

"Oh. Okay."

She guesses that they found the chicken specially for it.

She continues nomming her mac and cheese.