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Eefa is adopted by the Foster Blues of Amenta
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Sure. Eefa will draw the Raccoon that did something nice for her and she decided she was friends with and that only bit her a little.

He was not a very healthy raccoon, she will need some red.

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There are crayons in all the colors and she can draw a battered raccoon if she wants. Mikko glances at her work occasionally.

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When she is done with the raccoon she tries to draw a sea turtle like Shahn, since she's not very good at drawing and maybe practicing will help. 

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Shahn is coloring in a printed lineart drawing of a sea turtle but this will not impede her in trying to copy it particularly.

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Eefa is trying to learn how to draw without lines, so she tries to copy Shahn's on her own. 

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He's making his turtle sparkly silver and sky blue and magenta and lime green.

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Eefa is not sure turtles come in those colors! She does greens and blues. 

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Anina's butterfly is four shades of purple with a chunk of one wing done instead in burnt umber; realism may not be a priority.

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Oh, that does look pretty actually.

Eefa tries one of her own with fancy colors, redrawing her raccoon friend with fuchsia and deep blue and purple blood.

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Since she is not very good at drawing and raccoons do not exist on this planet in quite that form with any color scheme no one immediately notices how concerning a subject this is.

Anina gets put down for a nap after coloring time. Mikko's colleague sings her a lullaby about watching stars come out one at a time. Mikko asks Eefa if she would like to see where she will sleep tonight; she doesn't have to take a nap, she's a little old for it, that's just an Anina thing.

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Eefa will follow to where she is being put for the night.

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It's a little room with a low bed, almost right on the floor except for one layer of drawers beneath. Mikko's colleague has gotten her original clothes washed and put them away, folded neatly, in one of these drawers; Mikko shows her. There is a kidsized squashy swivel-armchair and a bunch of childrens' magazines and a stuffed bat and posters of spaceships and colorful fruits and a school of fish. There's a window, which doesn't open and is made of plastic but offers a view of a busy city of tall skyscrapers. There's a fluffy all-white rug on the floor over the tile.

"This is your room for as long as you're here with us," says Mikko.

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She does not get this room. It is hard to escape but also not dirty, which is not a combination she is used to. It also doesn't help her figure out whether they are planning on hurting her or won't until they find out more. 

Also, the cans are gone from her jacket, but she guesses that's not surprising. Later when Mikko isn't there she'll put the food she snuck out of the other room into the pockets. 

... The carpet is very fluffy and a good place to sleep, so at least there's that.

(She knows what the bed is but the fluffy floor seems better.)

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"Mostly kids aren't here very long. They go home with new families. But you might be here a bit longer since we don't know what caste you are, so let me or Chioss - the other orange grownup who's singing to Anina - know if there's anything you think the room needs."

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A way out, she doesn't say.

... if they aren't going to let her go until they figure out what caste she is then maybe she can figure out whether she wants to go to a "new family" and then say a caste if she does.

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"You'll go here at bedtime, but you can also hang out here during the day if you want space to yourself."

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"Other people won't come in?"

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"You can shut the door if you want to keep the other kids out. Me and Chioss and the night shift oranges won't come in without knocking unless there's an emergency, like if you hurt yourself somehow or there's a fire."

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She wonders why they knock. Or why they think she would hurt herself. She is not going to ask him those questions though.

"Are there a lot of fires?"

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"Nope! But when there are fires they're really bad and happen fast, so we have plans to keep everybody safe just in case."

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It makes sense that fires would be bad when they've trapped everyone inside.

"Okay."

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"Do you need anything right now?"

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Eefa shakes her head.

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"Okay! Dinner will be in two hours. We're having noodle soup with sausage in it."

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"Oh."

"Could I have some of it?"

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