She doesn't spend literally all her time answering summons here and there, but probably most of it. Not right now, though, right now she's taking a break, a nice bath, some cocoa, a good book...
Okay, break over, she gets out of the bath, puts some clothes on, and takes the first summons she feels.
"Your school must have been seriously negligent, we get troops of little greens coming through all the time, where did you go -"
"I'm not actually Voan, I'm from a smallish town in Tapa." Her face goes a bit darker when mentioning that. "I don't like thinking about that much, though—my, um, father wasn't the best at being a father."
"Goodness. It's so hard to find swaps. I guess it may be easier for greens."
"I think it might be, a little bit, but my mother took care of it before I was old enough to really care."
"What did she do?"
"And you haven't been to any of the province's museums?" says her neighbor plaintively. "We have a painting gallery - what's your mother's name -"
"What? Why not?"
"Oh, I'm so sorry, what happened to her?"
Huff. "Well, what do you want to talk about then?"
"Nobody talks on trains any more. I remember when everyone was friendlier and happy to meet new people, any season of the year."
"Leave the girl alone," says a purple guy on his cellphoney thing.
"We were having a perfectly pleasant conversation, mind your own business," says yellow lady.
"Just let her be."
"Young people are so impudent these days. When I was young I would never have behaved like that to a stranger."
Purple guy and yellow lady argue a bit more until yellow lady's stop arrives.
Oh good, she offers yellow lady a small smile and then looks out the window.
Scenery goes by, much of it cityscape or farm. Tunnels go by.
Here's the capital of Voa!
She wants to switch to a more local train line and get off over there and it'll be right in front of her, big blue and white building.
It does, yellow fellow at the front desk. "Can I help you?"
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