"It was a red who killed 'em, though. That's a little scary, you don't like to think about reds with the capacity to kill people. Ours're better at staying where they're put, I think."

"I think killing someone who is being tortured is a - different sort of thing - than killing someone in anger, which is again different from killing in self-defense. But they're really peaceful long as self-defense isn't necessary, or there'd have been problems long ago."

He grunts noncommittally.

Isel does not think that somebody should marry him. She asks Aitim later if he agrees.

" - I don't think he's on the hunt for a victim, but a bit of a controlling bent and some 'I made you I own you' stuff, yeah. I would marry him to be blue, expect I could steer him away from it, but I wouldn't recommend it."

"You want to be blue badly enough to marry some controlling guy who might get abusive?"

"...obviously?"

"Weird." She writes the red with this character assessment.

...she's on the fence.

I was gonna just say 'nope I don't like him don't do it' but my cousin said he'd do it in a heartbeat so I figured I'd just give you the facts to go off. Maybe you could arrange to get a vacation home in Anitam?

I'm not mostly worried for myself, I just wouldn't want it to spill onto the kids.

Blues don't really do much parenting. 

Even this one?

I don't know, I can ask him.

And she writes Orevo to say that a lovely red girl very timidly reached out to her to ask if she might be honored with an introduction which Isel is inclined to grant her but Isel wants to make sure they've compatible plans for children before she wastes his time, are they going to hire tutors or send the kids to school, does he mind if their mother being a very sweet and nurturing person does most of the caretaking...

He's an alumnus of this one place, boarding school out east, he wants to send the kids there. Side tutors on vacations for whatever they're doing that the school doesn't cover. He'll want to trot the kids out at formal events and a red won't know how to teach them to behave.

She forwards this.

This gives the red in question his email address, and there is a brief flurry of messages which concludes with Orevo announcing their engagement to Isel for-her-information.

She's so pleased for him. 

Okay, Voan reds, here is the Voan government's planned decontamination arrangement, there are engagements planned and they've negotiated with Anitam for Matirin and morph, how do people feel about training replacements.

...okay.

She gives the government the go-ahead. 

They go ahead.

And she frets but reds do not riot and government does not attempt to massacre them and there's transitional housing and she's waiting there to greet the first people out.

They hug her!

Hug!!

Can she come somewhere else now? Calado, the place that sold Miolee the rainforest, wants her.