are we out of the woods yet | Glowfic Constellation

Nope. Reds. Why's the dye so hard to remember?

She forgot it one time and then they kept being assholes about it.

Because it's the law and they want to be able to follow it.

Well she didn't KNOW that.

Isel is glad it's cleared up now.

Why is a blue with an accent doing this.

She's Anitami and the aliens in Anitami custody are giving starships to countries they're impressed with and Cene asked her to come help fix up some stuff to impress the aliens.

...what does that have to do with dye for reds.

One of the things aliens are impressed by is reds being handled appropriately, which includes getting their supplies delivered so they can dye themselves properly. No one wants to worry about reds who don't look red.

Why is that impressive to aliens?

Well, it's objectively kind of embarrassing to have reds with other hair colors, isn't it.

...to aliens? The aliens don't even have hair.

They still get the concept of 'we made a law that reds have to have red hair and then we didn't give them any red hair dye for months'.

Well fine next delivery will include some.

She's so glad.

Next delivery includes some and the reds complain that it's all bright scarlet and some of them wanted darker or lighter or something.

Does the store mind firing their supplier and hiring a different one.

They can't do that themselves but if it happened somehow that'd be great.

...why can't they do that themselves?

...they aren't authorized to pick their own social workers or suppliers or anything they just show up and they have to pay them for the stuff.

She asks her diplomatic contacts who she should talk to to get a supplier fired.

Uh, there's a centralized distributor coordinator.

She talks to the centralized distributor coordinator.

The personnel lady wants to know what's wrong with that deliveryperson?