"Let me know if I'm going through emails too fast and you want me to slow down or read them to you, then." And will Meelia sit on Tish's knee while she answers emails signing off on trying a new pesticide in a particular subsection of an orchard, and chooses a name for a new cultivar of grape, and looks over the bank statement for the month, and agrees to let a wedding take place among the plums?

Meelia sounds out some words aloud - enough to get the subjects but not to under-stand much. 

"What's a pest-ic-ide?"

"What name are you gonna choose?"

"Who's having a wedding. Also what's a wedding?"

"Pesticides are things that bugs and other stuff that are bad for plants don't like, so they'll stay away. We have to test new ones to make sure they're not bad for the plants, too, or for anything that's good for them, like pollinators, or for us, like if they made the food taste bad."

"I think I'll go with 'splendiferous'."

"Looks like Shian Safikt and Osas Teft are having this wedding, and a wedding is when people have a party to celebrate that they're getting married, like me and Haemi are."

Meelia cracks up at splen-dif-erous. It's really funny.

"Why'd you celebrate it? Also why'd they need to ask you to have it?"

"Weddings are celebrated because they're happy occasions! They'll invite their family and friends to congratulate them on finding who they want to spend their life with. They're asking because they want to do it on my land, and they can't come on my land without my permission, especially not with a great big party full of people."

"Oh, I don't think most amaliens would have lots of people in their private places that they have to be alone in. I might try it once I guess to see how fun it was."

"We have more and less private places. The farm isn't very private, but it belongs to us so we need to give permission before someone can throw a whole party here - if nothing else they wouldn't want to try to have their party at the same place and same time as other people they didn't know so they want to make sure they've picked a good day for that. The house is more private, we wouldn't let strangers have a party here at all! And our bedroom is more private than that, even if someone is here to visit us at our house they usually won't go into the bedroom, but we share it with each other and the staff do clean it."

"Why are the staff different than people?"

"The staff are people! But we don't want to clean our own rooms and that means we have to let the cleaners in there."

"Oh, why don't you clean your own rooms? I think I'd clean my own private space if I had to to make it so someone else didn't have to go in."

"We don't think of cleaning as very fun so we hire other people to do it. It's more important that they're not in there unexpectedly, so we can be sure we're all by ourselves when we want, than that they're never in there at all."

"Oh."

Something occurs to Meelia, causing her to bounce up and down on Tish's lap.

"Do I get a room?"

"Yes you do! Do you want to see it?"

"Yes!"

Up the stairs and over thisaway is Meelia's room! It has a nice big bed and a toy chest and some pretty draperies in sunrise-pink-and-gold-pastels on the walls. "We didn't know what you'd want in here so we guessed; if you want to change anything just say the word."

"Ooooh!" 

Meelia backflips onto the bed excitedly.

Tish laughs. "Comfy?"

Meelia bounces up and down a bunch.

"Weeeee!"

She stops for a second and holds her hand out to Tish.

"Want to join?"

"Sure!" On Tish flops. She's heavier and doesn't bounce much but her flop bounces Meelia!

Bounce!

Meelia bounces up and down to try to bounce Tish!

The bed is not really springy enough to bounce Tish, but Tish laughs happily anyway.

"Hm. Could be bouncier but I guess this works."

"Well, it's meant for sleeping on. If you want to bounce and not sleep you get a trampoline."

"A tramp-o-line?"

"A trampoline is a big sproingy piece of material held up by a rigid frame, so you can jump on it." She pulls out her pocket everything and finds a video of someone on a trampoline.