"Why's that somethin you gotta apologize to him for tho- oh probably I shouldn't distract you more."

"Yeah." Getting ready for school proceeds apace. He also zips up his suitcase to give his dad to bring home. "See you after school! I'm glad you're better!"

Fika gives Kota one more goodbye hug and goes off to find her yellow to see if there is breakfast. 

By the time she gets there her yellow is already at work, but has considerately left the window open and a tray table with a covered bowl of dry muesli out for her.

Oh! Food. Nom nom nom.

(It would probably taste even better if she had her food wand.)

Fika doesn't actually really want to try a new thing today. She'll... go and find an Amalien blanket. She was missing one during naptime and she can prolly go and get one from amaliens out-side the city be-fore it gets to be Kota time.

The amalien encampment's environs are playing host to anthropologists and someone who is for lack of a better term calling herself a monsterologist.

Oh! Maybe there is a job for her to do out here. She can foll-ow the amentans 'round to see if they are doin fun things. 

They are taking notes, or breaks, depending.

Fika doesn't know how to take notes.

"Watchya doin?"

"- I'm observing the amaliens over there," says the green she asks.

"Why? You going to paint a picture?"

"No, I'm taking notes on what they do and how they talk to each other."

"Why don't you ask them?"

"Oh, I do that too, but it's useful to corroborate."

"What'd you mean?"

"Maybe if I ask them 'how often do you start a new conversation with your friends?' or 'how many people are usually in a cuddle pile?' they'll have a fuzzy memory and not be sure, or not be right, or not have in mind the same definition of 'new conversation' that I do. So I'm watching, and writing things down. And places where the answers I got were the same as what I see versus places where they aren't are also interesting."

"Oh! Like checking my memory to make sure I got it right."

"What sorta things are you lookin for now?"

"I'm just writing down everything I notice them doing and what time it happens. Here I wrote down what time you started talking to me." Point.

"I guess writin is a good idea if it lasts as long as you."

"I'll turn these notes into an article and then it'll go on the internet, so it'll last as long as the internet, as long as people are doing responsible archiving."

"And how long'll that be?"

"Well, I don't know. But longer than my lifespan, probably."

"Oh."

"That's not very long."

"Sorry."

"I know. But we've got this whole civilization that will be able to do maintenance on things, so the important stuff could last a long time."

"Hm. I hope so, it's sad to forget important things."