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"What'd you actually -"

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"Oh, you know, the usual, that we value the long-standing friendship between our nations and appreciate their promptness with loan repayment and are so glad all their children are safe."

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Evalee could have been equipped to massacre some unmilitarized ex-reds but they are currently having enough problems not to want to provoke Anitam. Their emergency procedures are holding but not without friction.

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She lets the ex-reds know that three thousand greens are accompanying them "pretty much as human shields, I'm sorry, I know you'd probably sooner be left alone" -

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No, that's a good idea and they appreciate it.

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Great. It'll probably be quite a learning experience. 

 

Lots of them are now done with decontamination and being housed in empty warehouses. Boats with greens and ex-reds can start going to Miolee.

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The reds spent their time in decontamination reading up on survival and the rainforest. They also got a loan from somewhere and have tents and some old nonperishables out of Voa from years ago and some other supplies delivered onto the beach still in their shipping containers. They set up tents and put kids and old people in them and get to work clearing space and setting up lobster traps and scouting the jungle.

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Greens have their supplies and accommodations paid for by some generous blue benefactor and set up much larger tents and a generator and air conditioning and internet. They follow people around taking notes or cluster having arguments. They are not really that annoying and they don't mind everyone using their internet.

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The reds were going to pay for satellite internet with their loan but borrowing means they can order some stuff sooner. They don't mind being followed as long as the people following them don't insist on picking up poison frogs or refuse to help carry shit when there is shit to be carried. Somebody writes a Miolee anthem and the reds sing it till everyone's sick of it.

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The people following avoid poison frogs (some of them document the poison frogs, but they do know what they're doing) and will do a little carrying but then profess utter exhaustion. They record the anthem and take lots of pictures.

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Eventually there is a dejungled area suitable to be a city later in a semicircle around the beach landing site. The reds authorize various businesses to show up and build business things as long as they'll also house their workers. (More reds show up from another batch. They also sing the anthem ad nauseum.)

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Some greens have obligations at home and leave. Some stay and document more things. 

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Isel suggests they maybe figure out a tourism industry and get those businesses settled in before the next season starts and most of the greens have to return for classes.

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They know their way around the jungle okay now. They can sell jungle tours and... whalewatching, and if tourists just want to gawk at red-haired people (...and some who are no longer dyeing their hair and have roots coming in purple or orange or grey or even yellow or green) parading around like they own the place, they sure can.

Assemble, along with other businesses, disproportionately Anitami, build factories and dorms. Miolee has furniture and restaurants and a hardwood export industry.

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Everyone is very glad. 

 

Pictures get out about the array of undyed hair colors, to some vague consternation at home. Blues are as a class mildly smug about the lack of reds with blue ancestry. 

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"Because a blue who wants someone who can't turn them down doesn't have to stoop as far as red. Sure something worth congratulating yourselves on, the fact the system's corrupt enough you can -"

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"Not the time, okay?"

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"I think that's kind of an uncharitable assumption." They are over to let Imeles and Ana play.

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"Do you."

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"It could be a coincidence. There aren't that many blues."

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"And I don't think all those relationships were - just the convenience of insulation against legal consequences -"

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"Not all of them. But if that's what you're into, how lucky for you that the law lets you -"

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"It doesn't anymore."

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"I thought the reds were only reporting some of the cases."

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"Clean castes also only report some cases. Not even because they don't think we'll prosecute, just because - they don't want the person in trouble, or they don't want it public, or their girlfriend will think they cheated, or..."

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