Kiss!!!!

And he can pick her up and carry her off and not overthink it.

She is made entirely of pleasant surfaces and delighted noises.

Peka Peka Peka Peka Peka.

That is her. She is his fiancée.

He writes a song about her! Springtime comes and people are in the mood for romantic songs and it tops the charts. He doesn't name her in the song, of course - that'd be tempting fate even if Tapa thinks she's dead - but it's not hard to guess it's the person he's released a couple songs with.

Conveniently her voice is not renowned at all.

So convenient!

They get the red districts backup generators for security reasons and occasionally punish attacks on them and he does in fact mention in international diplomacy that the new camera policy really inspired reds to stop grabbing at random innocent greys, which previously they'd done with bizarre regularity - fortunate how every single time they ever tried it it was towards a grey currently armed for self-defense against reds in particular. 

Voa is having some financial trouble with the loss of Imde province but finds the budget to imitate them in a couple of cities as a test.

He's so fond of Avalor. 

Avalor seems fond of him too.

Olvala declares their experiment with red rotation a success.

Reds, in decimated droves, flee in all directions, taking losses as they go, and purples clean up after the massacres in hazmat suits.

He watches the news a lot. 

He throws all the devices in his house out the window and into the apartment complex swimming pool. It's presumed to have been some student stressed about finals.

She's presuming the local reds don't really have the resources to take in foreign neighbors even if she could get them permission to immigrate which she almost certainly can't.

Pelape says they can take some kids if they don't have to buy credits for them and there are some neighborhoods that could use doctors and teachers and handymen and she is pretty sure it is possible for Isel to read red websites too here are them.

She asks her parents about getting permits and she looks at the websites.

Pelape has optimistically put up a little survey. This neighborhood lost a lot of plumbers in the blizzard. That one needs a pediatrician. This one is low on unskilled labor. Everyone would like orphans if they don't have to buy credits for them. Some of them have online friends and if the online friends can be specifically found they would take them in and find a way to make it work.

...it hadn't actually occurred to her that there'd be other plumbers stranded in the blizzard who would've died there. 

Her parents make inquiries; the general consensus is that fixing a plumber shortage or something is a good reason to grant passes but if you let people adopt children without credits they'll think they can get away with anything. Maybe if there was a corresponding cut to the available credits next year. 

There're a couple secluded areas where the surviving reds've congregated to slowly starve. She asks Telkam if he wants to help her look for peoples' online friends. 

" - why me -"

"I, like, actually shouldn't go around in foreign neighborhoods of desperate reds alone but I don't want to take real greys they might pick a fight."

" - Peka won't pick a fight. I'll go and I'll ask her."

Isel's maybe got permission for us to take in some refugees, wants to go filter. Wants bodyguards. I said maybe you'd come.

I am not actually competent as a bodyguard and don't speak a word of Olvalan.

Okay. Do you have suggestions -

I mean I can come but I won't be very much help. Uh, keep your hands where they can see them and if you have to bring one of those sticks don't keep it snapped together. If you're giving them stuff throw it to where they are don't make them come to someplace you put it down if you can avoid it, it makes it look like a trap. Go really covered up so they don't have to worry about a little kid grabbing your leg quite as much, some people will tolerate a grab to a layer of clothes but not skin.