Elf can hear her fine; he stops singing and looks up.

"- oh all that and they have super hearing! Of course they do! Yeah I'm talking to you, Elf, fuck you and the ships you rode in on, flailing around like it doesn't matter where you step -"

Is light pink considered red, locally? he asks Maitimo, and walks towards angry pink.

Yes, I think so. 

She flinches and looks anxiously at the building she's waiting outside of.

"Can I help you?"

She swallows. "I'm sorry sir."

"See, that I hear a lot of, and complaints I don't hear much, so that's not actually what I was looking for. Why're you upset -"

"Personal stress sir I'm sure you have other things to worry about sir."

" - yeah I'm talking to you, Elf, fuck you and the ships you rode in on, flailing around like it doesn't matter where you step -"

"I'm sorry sir."

"I would like to know what's wrong!"

"It's - money problems - they're talking about putting out of Imde, cutting excess army personnel - my baby -"

"Is fighting in the war?"

"She's three months old, you moron."

"Presume I recently landed here from another planet and it is not obvious to me how the end of the war and a reduction in the size of your nation's standing army will inconvenience any three-month-olds."

"My parents are leasing a child credit and I enlisted to pay it down and if we miss a payment we lose the credit and the enforcers kill my baby!"

" -what???"

"I don't know how to say any of that in smaller words!"

"I don't think it was a translation problem. What the - why do you even have child credits, why are they enforced with murder of babies, why didn't they mention that when we told them executions needed to stop -"

"Population controls. I don't know what the blueshits were thinking, why don't you ask them."

Maitimo ask them why the fuck they fucking execute babies if their parents haven't paid for a child credit the fuck why do these people exist are you sure we can't just take them all home and - fuck fuck fuck how do any of these people get out of bed what the FUCK - 

"I am asking them. How many babies are executed for population controls reasons -"

"Mostly people make sure they have a credit first. Even covers twins. Isn't that nice."

"How much money do you need."

"Next installment's five hundred."