"Uh, I don't mind doing some amount of camping, as you can see, but in the medium to long term I do need running water to be comfortable."

"Plausible the Esteel Tree can manage that. Keetim definitely can but it's not safe for Amentans to use during the night I think. Might be some other ways to do it that Vira knows about. I'm guessing putting you underwater wouldn't count?"

He thinks for a bit.

"Would a few amalines carrying water and things work?"

"I can manage with using running water only during the day. Putting me underwater wouldn't count."

"Keetim is safe during the day - safer than an Amentan city along some axes - it's only during the night when Keetim sometimes has nightmares. Even then it's basically harmless unless you're moving around enough that it lashes out."

"Yeah, I wasn't sure if the info I had on it was overblown or not. I am willing to sleep in a tent and spend the daytime in Keetim if it'll have me and there's enough food here too. Maybe move in properly if it really is harmless even to Amentans so long as I stay in bed at night."

"Keeta would be the expert on how safe it is, but I'm sure you'd be welcome, night or day."

"I'm guessing there is enough food around and if there isn't we can find more." 

"What's the medical care situation if I turn out to be violently allergic to a local mushroom?"

"Meelia or Vira might be able to help, or there might be an amalien vet in Keetim who can do better than either. We don't have proper Amentan medical supplies but we could see about changing that or... probably the best solution is to have a means of fast transportation to get you to an Amentan hospital in an emergency?"

"Yeah. They have helicopters in Chaspanti and there's some first aid stuff I could get for some possibilities."

"We have some monsters that go much faster than helicopters, but if you think that's fast enough we don't need to find one that's up for being around in emer-gen-cies I guess."

"Faster's better, this is definitely one of the major risks of not living near a civilization that knows how to treat me if I have a problem."

"Okay, I think Flooze is available, and should be able to get to Chispanti faster than a helicopter."

"What's Flooze?"

"Giant fluffball monster with weird very long and fast legs that it produces and retracts. Has space for people in the fluff. He'll be here sometime soon with his amaliens - Meelia is going to invite them."

"Aww, a fluffball."

"He's a very convenient and cozy monster!"

"If he won't mind hanging around that would be great to have as an emergency evac option."

Meelia finds Neh with the help of Keetim pretty easily, waking her up ( "sorry Neh, you can sleep in very long after" ) for a trip with Meow to drop her off at Amyris Cove, a beach of red crystal sand glistening brilliantly in the setting sun.

She flops on to the cove, making a red sand angel for a bit until the sand all starts gathering round her in one big ball of color and the next wave washes her and the sand away-

- and immediately onto a beach in the arctic where she throws the a paper message out into the nearby village before the sand is swept back away by the next wave to the cove. 

Where she angels once again, this time letting herself be left on the thinnest of beaches, just barely above the waterline on the edge of a canyon into which gigantic waterfalls tumble on either side. She screams excitedly as she jumps.

She tries to ride the water down so she doesn't go so fast she won't be able to walk for a while but it's really hard and she's going too fast until, at the last moment, her friend Puff, a cloud, catches her. The ride on his cozy cloudy back is very snug and nice. She gives him a treat she brought from Keetim when he finds Peli's current nest in the canyon and drops her off there.

With the help of Peli she once again zips around the world, collecting the amaliens who she had not already notified. 

"So" says Lucien to Pelape as they wait, "how was your trip here?"

"Boring. Also they had me and her other escort doing twelve hour shifts with pretty limited breaks midstream and that made eating and whatnot awkward, I think they couldn't find a third."

"Why not?"

"Her hosts, this blue couple, hired us - they were worried that if the government just assigned random greys, they'd be mean to her for having wanted to help the reds, greys are not one of the castes with the highest tolerance for reds on average. So they hunted up greys who'd be willing to take the job and could say things like 'I have been internet friends with open reds for several years', in my case. And they had to look pretty far afield, I'm not even Tapai - I don't know if my accent's obvious to a nonnative speaker but I'm actually from Anitam and this job got me a Tapai guest worker card."

"How many greys are there?"

"...in the world? In Tapa? Who speak Tapap? As a percentage?"

"I'm trying to get a feeling for how exceptional you are among Amentans."