"They won't make trouble for me while I have their kids."

"But Miolee'll have them. Unless you're actually diverting them somewhere else?"

"They can take a long route to get there, make sure there's no trouble. Storms are common at sea this time of year. I won't actually divert the boat unless there's trouble. And I am not expecting trouble."

"Yeah, all right. Long as they don't take anyone we need for training and do take enough to keep the brats with their hands to themselves."

"Yeah, they're sending their internal staff - storeowners and red teachers and so on. No one who serves the city. My security team'll escort once they're here."

"They have teachers?" somebody wonders.

"They have teachers! They have daycare workers! They used to have doctors. They have community coordinators."

"Not real doctors."

"The Anitami ones went orange and got real medical degrees right quick."

Scoff.

Does she have bids from security companies.

Yeah, a couple. One of them advertises a willingness to hire ex-red although there is no evidence they have actually done that, possibly for lack of opportunity.

Not many ex-reds went grey. Yeah, sure, they're hired. First job is escorting kids and nonessentials to a boat.

They have versions of the sticks with shepherd-crook-like attachments to sort of herd kids along, if necessary. They manage to avoid thwacking any children with them.

She is so proud of them. Kids go on boats. Boats go straight for Miolee.

Miolee puts 'em in the decontamination center. They could use some of the money a little earlier, given that.

She can auction her property in Calado.

Meanwhile, reds pick up the cube from its blue bag.

Great. Isel goes over there in bird form in case complications arise.

They get everyone morph. Some of them and their security take it to the next neighborhood and the next (Rivik has only five). They all acquire cockroaches. One of them has an accident with broadcast thoughtspeak and the local cops are soon in a shoving match with the Anitami security.

...she hurries there. What's the problem exactly?

Confused noise complaint.

So write 'em a fine.

They're supposed to go identify who caused the problem and these foreign greys aren't letting them in!!

Yeah, this is the security team preventing riots during transition, good job security team, the Rivikni government specifically paid for external consulting to avoid riots during transition. How were they even going to figure out who caused the problem?