...President Icalena is a dork.

Uh. This one neighborhood is running out of red dye and hasn't got a straight answer about when to expect more and it is super illegal for them not to dye if they don't have naturally obviously red. Boo social workers. No except this one this one place likes theirs she brings them presents and tells them when the mean cops are on certain beats.

She tells Cene that this district is running out of red dye, what's the problem there?

Some issue with the purple deliveryperson probably.

Well, since it's super important that reds look red maybe there should be multiple delivery options. What do they think of a package chute so reds can order things from normal online retailers and they can be dropped off into the chute without the delivery person having to decontaminate? 

Normal online retailers don't actually sell red dye but that sounds great for other reasons!

Oh good. Does someone want to follow up on setting that up while she tries to figure out their dye shortage?

...sure, they can have chutes. How big do the chutes need to be?

Seems like if they're sizable then more stuff can get ordered that way and fewer people have to interact with the reds.

Yes but there's "Assemble furniture boxes" and "enormous novelty stuffed animals".

She bets the reds won't order enormous novelty stuffed animals and does not think the chutes need to be sized for that.

Okay, they can be big enough for a boxed sofa. They get underway on that.

Who's supposed to deliver the dye in that neighborhood and what's the holdup?

There's this one purple who supplies nonfood things to their stores. She just keeps forgetting.

Does purple have a location or contact information.

She has a home address.

That's a little bit of a rude thing to do to someone. Maybe if she forgets again.

Yup.

Isel stops by her house.

She lives with her husband's parents and has a one-year-old.

The dye thing is a real problem, can Isel help her out any with getting that delivered reliably?

What? Why does it matter if they can dye their hair shades of red they think are prettier?

...no, see, lots of them don't have red hair naturally, or have a shade that could be mistaken for purple or orange. 

...but they're reds. They don't even interbreed with other castes so it's not like her yellow-haired great great grandma.

Has she seen pictures of Mioleens Isel can show her some.

She figured they were people who moved there or something.