"Just for today I think!"

The teacher blinks at her. "It's not an open house day, so we weren't expecting guests," she says.

"That's okay!"

"What do you teach?"

"- I'm not actually sure it is okay. I think perhaps you should come back another day, when we're planning on having extra people around." This orange spends all day around people Fika's size and is not over-awww'd.

"I'm confu-sed. Why can't I just help out today?"

"Today isn't a visitors' day. Today is a regular day and on regular days at school it's just the people who work here every day, and the students who are enrolled here right now."

"Oh I only work at places one day so far, can I just do that?"

"No. I've heard about you and you've been doing a fine job with purple work, but teaching is different."

"Why?"

"I don't have time to have a conversation about this. Please go out past that fence, school is starting." She points.

Fika is really confused! Is Kota around to 'splain things?

She can spot him in the seethe of kids flowing into the school but he's talking to somebody else.

Well luckily she is very good at climbing over people so she can ask him what's happen-ing.

"Ow!"

"Hey!

"My GLASSES!"

"Who's that -"

Someone grabs her ankle.

"Oops, sorry! I'll be more careful."

Ankle-grabber is a taller grey three-year-old. She dangles Fika upside down. "Teacher, you wanted her outside the fence?"

"Yes, thank you," calls the teacher.

Ankle-grabber begins to carry Fika out.

"Kota!" Fika yells, as she is being carried away.

At least she's upside down and that's sorta fun.

Kota looks over. "Fika! Teacher - teacher I said she should come -"

"- well, why did you tell her that?"

"It'd be fun!"

"She can join you at recess."

"What about dance and history?" asks upside-down Fika.

"It's the middle of a term," says the teacher. "You can attend when we have an open house."

Ankle-grabber sets her down outside the fence.

Fika wants to teach, not attend! She guesses that can wait till another time. She'll find some other fun job to do today. Not a purple one though, since she think she already figured those out.

Once it appears that she is not going to attempt to come back in, all the Amentans in the school environs go back inside.

Fika is going looking for a new job to try out!

There are plenty of people around! Mostly purples, but she can spot other oranges, and yellows, and greens, and greys, and even a blue over there.

Oooh, she hasn't seen many of that last color!

"Hi! What'd you do?"