Tish Ahtemik and Haemi Fanu are rural blue lesbians who spend most of their time on their farm estate and are very keen on adopting a cute alien! They meet Meelia at the shuttleport.

Meelia waves enthusiasticly!

"Hi I'm Meelia and I just got here and I'm very excited to meet you and also what's that and can I go on it!"

Meelia points to a moving walkway.

"You sure can! It's a moving walkway."

Meelia bounces and jumps onto the walkway and turns to see if the couple is following.

One has joined her and the other is jogging ahead to receive her on the far side!

She races the jogging one! 

She can win if she has a way to get around the yellow family ahead of her!

She cartwheels on the side railing, passing them.

"Yay!!"

She wiggles to celebrate till the couple catches up.

"Whew!" says the one who jogged on the normal floor. "That looked scary, but you pulled it off, you're a regular little gymnast, huh?"

She nods! 

"I'm good at doing scary things sometimes."

"And if you get a bump on the head you're fine, right? Tougher than you look." Haemi scoops her up.

Meelia hugs Haemi a little bit after she's scooped up.

"Well it hurts and sometimes and I cry a little but it goes away later."

"Yeah. So I guess you can do all the gymnastics you want even if it'd be risky for an Amentan and we'd want to have spotters and padded floors."

Meelia nods.

"Is that what you use when you want to do gymnastics?"

"Yup! Not us personally, we're not gymnastics types, but for people who do."

"Oh, I have some friends back home who don't like gymnastics I guess."

She remembers that she has such a friend with her, and, after some searching her clothes, holds out what appears to be a small mouse.

"Like this friend! Her name is Cheep! She's a monster-mouse."

"Oh also, what'r'your names?"

"I'm Haemi and my wife's Tish! Hello, Cheep, what a nice name - what makes Cheep different from a not-monster mouse?"

"Cheep lives longer and she could do gymnastics like me if she wanted to. And had stronger arms. Also I don't think most mice are as smart as her."

"Well, it's nice to meet you, Cheep," says Tish, catching up. "You ready for a train ride, Meelia, or do you want to look around this city a bit before we take you home with us?"

Cheep cheeps in response before scrambling back into Meelia's sleeve.

"I think I'd like to see your home right now if it's quieter there then here, since I haven't been in a very quiet place for a while."

"We can visit the city later, right?"

"Yeah, of course! Our home is really quiet, it's out on a big farm. And we can get the quiet train car to go there."

Down the elevator, into the train.

The elevator feels a little bit like part of the spaceship ride but less so. She guesses this is cause they both go up and down.

The train also feels like that, cept side-to-side. She looks around at all the strange new Amentan people on the train. 

The quiet car has a yellow on it, knitting, and a sleeping green and a reading green, plus her and her caretakers.

"What's she doing?" Meelia asks, pointing at the yellow.

"She's knitting! It's a way of making fabric out of yarn."