Oh well, she'll do building jungle gyms the other way then.

"What sorta thing were you workin on today?"

"There's a lot of temporary housing in district seventeen, and I want to work out what to replace it with when that gets relocated to the outskirts."

"Could you maybe show me how you do that?"

"All right, let's sit you here -" She has a folding chair and sets it up where Fika will be able to see her screen while she's working, and goes into her save file.

Fika crouches on the chair while watching.

Chiss scrutinizes the simulated traffic through her most recent attempt at this. She's got purple apartments there, mostly, and is fast-forwarding through the stage where the units are rented and moved into.

"Oh, it looks sorta like ants or mi-grating ani-mals!"

"It does, the program just renders everyone as a colorful dot." She observes some uneven traffic and frowns at it and replaces an apartment with a park and adds another story to a different apartment.

Fika has suggestions, based on patt-ern matching to sim-ilar things she's seen before. They aren't very good sugg-estions but they aren't very bad either.

Chiss shrugs and tries her ideas whenever she doesn't have an iteration of her own immediately ready to go.

Fika is very good at coming up with ideas, and can come up with lots of different ideas based on Ama-lien cities that she's seen built and changed over lots and lots of time before.

Amentans don't have patterns of motion identical to amaliens, but they can make progress on revising district seventeen over the course of the afternoon.

"This seems like a Lucien or Mortle or Nune thing more than a me thing." Fika declares towards the end of the afternoon.

"...okay," says Chiss.

"Could I have some money please?"

"- what? What for?"

"For doing a job."

"...no. I didn't hire you and you didn't help very much."

"The other places didn't hire me. Though I guess I did help more in those places."

"That's their business, I suppose."

The next day one of the first people Fika sees after breakfast is a green taking a photo of a native tree that was left standing in a city park.

She hasn't tried that color yet!

"Watchya doin'?"

"Taking pictures!" he replies without looking at her.

"Oh! Can I try?"

He looks at her, then. "- oh! Sure, if you can hold the camera very carefully. Your fingers can't touch this part -" He gestures - "and if you push any of these buttons it changes the settings so probably when you're starting out you don't want to."