Hug. "Maybe the rats can be in a zoo? Not running around getting into people food."

Hug!

"That'd be nice I think... You're a good Kota."

"You're a good Fika." Hug.

Fika is happy to let Kota take the lead on what to do to-day if he'd like!

He is poking around at the class offerings. "It's all purple stuff," he frowns after looking at what the other kids are doing.

"Oh, could see if there's grey stuff someplace? Though I dunno - don't think I've ever done a grey job. Just purple and green and blue."

"Well, you can do whatever, you aren't really any caste."

"Mhm. D'you think other people here are any caste?"

"I can't really tell. Maybe they're just all purple or whatever does purple things here and the other kinds will look totally different."

"Mhm. Could be that the small people are purples and the big ones are different?"

"I don't think so, they come in all the sizes." He points at a midsize boy. And a baby.

"Really weird how they do that."

"Amentans do that too! We have to start tiny to be born, and then we grow."

"Well, Amentans are pretty weird too."

Fika sorta smiles while saying this.

"I think it's weirder that you don't even know where you came from," giggles Kota. "Oh, there's a class on... how to read. I already know how to read but it's not just purple at least."

"I think it's really weird to 'member yourself coming from somewhere."

"I don't remember it. I can't remember anything before... first autumn, I think."

"Oh huh. Why not?"

"Well, you don't remember everything from your whole life either, right? You needed to be reminded of my name a bunch of times and stuff."

"Yeah but that's cause I'm full of lots and lots of mem-or-ies I think? And you're so small. Though I guess some amaliens wouldn't remember as far back as when you were born."

"It was more'n two years ago. I think grownups do remember things from that long ago usually, I think maybe babies are bad at remembering."

"You change how good you are at 'membering overtime?!"

Amentans keep being very surprising

"Yeah, maybe we have to learn to remember same as we have to learn to walk and talk?"

"That's really strange and i didn't eve 'member that you had to learn to walk and talk but that's also strange."

"Yeah, babies can't. They can't do much of anything, they need to be taken care of all the time."