"I agree."

Fika doesn't feel very helpful here, if that's all the Amentans are doing she'll continue her search for an amalien blanket.

Not findin anything fun to try, Fika sets to searching for an amalien blanket. She finds one that her and a few other amaliens she is friends with all share (she also gets perm-ission to borrow it for a while).

She'll head back into the city then - it's getting to be Kota-time!

(She is wearing the fuzzy patchwork blanket sorta like a cloak, with a hood bit. She's tied it around her neck to keep it in place like that.)

Kota pops out of school at the usual hour! He does not recognize Fika right away when she's in a hooded patchwork blanket.

"Kota!"

"Fika! You have a new coat!"

"It's an amalien blanket ac-tually!"

Fika floomps onto Kota to demonstrate.

He giggles. "Is it better than an Amentan blanket?" Pet pet.

Amaliens are not a very technologically advanced species. This isn't because of a lack of capabilities perse - Vira's accumulated scientific knowledge is competitive with that of any Amentan. The reason why amaliens lack a technology isn't because they can't figure out how to build things, but instead because the entire notion of industry and mass production has never clearly been worth it to them - they don't have substantial unmet physical needs, and discovering and befriending monsters can productively address most problems that occur. What technological solutions do occur are usually the result sciencey amaliens like Vira improvising their her own mini-industrial-revolution so as to climb the tech tree enough to get the results they need for a given specific purpose.

This is all to say that amaliens can create advanced technology, with the one shining example of the collective creativity and intellect of their civilization being their extremely soft blankets. Nature nor monster provides enough softness for the amaliens, and so over the millennia they have developed, haphazardly and incrementally, increasingly sophisticated softness capabilities. While the blankets are cared for by hand, their creation (and occasional incremental improvement) is the result of an arduous and lengthy process that cumulatively takes up many Amentan lifetimes for each blanket, not to mention the substantial amount of research into the science of softness which a full 10% of the amalien population has made a study of at one point or another.

It is a very soft blanket.

"- wow. It didn't look that soft."

Snuggle!

"It looks soft to me! Maybe that's cause I'm used to amalien blankets though. Our blankets are the softest things on the planet! ... I don't think you all coming here changed that."

"You should tell the purples how to make 'em." Snug snug snug.

"I dunno how. It's really hard and needs a lot of different things."

"Well whoever knows how should tell 'em."

"Vira prolly knows, we could ask her to tell them?"

"Okay! Does she have email?"

"Probably!"

Fika does not know what it is though.

Neither does Kota but he is presently distracted by trying to get a tangle out of Fika's hair.

This is going to be a very difficult task, especially considering that Fika is now trying to get a tangle out of Kota's hair. If she can find one. She will search.

Kota's hair is pretty short but he doesn't mind her looking!

Look look look. It's so short!

"Your hair falls out real fast!"

"Don't pull my hair out!" he says, alarmed.

"I'm not! It's just very short. Only a few amaliens have hair this short."

"I just like it short."