"I don't really hold with that kind of casteist nonsense. You have your jobs and purples have theirs but that's no call to assume that all purples should jump when you snap your fingers. You're not even from Cene."

"My role here is as a consultant to help Cene check some boxes the aliens want handled for starship access. This purple is terrible at her job - appallingly bad at her job - and I assure you I would aggressively pursue a blue that bad at their job too. Are you having trouble finding suppliers who can actually deliver supplies?"

"It's not a popular job posting. It's only I don't like the some purple phrasing, I don't think you'd talk that way about a blue."

"Not in public, yeah, that's fair. I'm sorry. I am trying to get you starships and Cene understandably doesn't want a whole Anitami team running around taking space on your trains so I have been doing all the following up on things personally. If I follow up on a supply problem that was right near turning into a big national embarrassment and what's going on is the supplier forgot for several months, and can't get it right even once she knows it's a box we've got to check for starships -"

"I can pay someone overtime to cover her area while we look for a replacement."

"Thank you. How much does that come to -"

"Depends how long it takes. About a thousand southies a week."

"I'll cover a month."

"- goodness. Thank you."

She sends her the money. "Not fair to tell people it's important if I'm not the one who ends up dipping into the kid's account, is it. I do appreciate it."

"Where do I return the remainder if it takes less than a month?"

She gives her her account ID.

The personnel manager makes a note.

She lets the reds know that there will be a new delivery person.

That's good.

Uh huh. Cene maybe wants to transition, she welcomes comments.

AAAAAAAAAAH.

They want to do it without anyone dying so they can impress the aliens.

...aahh?

Uh, they have a lot of people who like seasons a whole heckuva lot. Anitam's thing was nice.

She will see what she can do. 

How do people in Cene feel about decontaminating and integrating their reds like Anitam and Tapa.

The thing where Anitam lets them be blue is weird. Also that would be very expensive.

Gets them starships. And they don't have to let them be blue though Anitam's have been model blues.

Do they have to let them be green?

"Could make them take the university entrance exams. Maybe a token handful will pass, you get the symbolic effect without most people knowing one."

Can they make the reds pay for it.