<Just in case all four districts need to evacuate at once and I can't get to all of them, I think the best plan is to have the meeting location at the edge of your district, have almost everybody go roach, and have one person go clean caste and take them. I can leave clean clothes in a plastic bag and a clean briefcase for them, if you pick a location.>

"How are we going to explain being clean and leaving here -"

<I am imagining, like, find an empty building nearby, toss the briefcase, fly in a window, leave the clean building.>

"- can you give me that from the beginning step by step I'm confused -"

<Yes, sorry. We find an empty building adjacent to this district. Near that building, but in the red district, we put a case for cockroaches. Everyone goes there and turns into cockroaches and climbs in, except one person. That person flies - with the briefcase, if they can carry it, with a clothesline or something from which to reel it in if they can't carry it - to the clean building. In the clean building they demorph, morph clean, put on clean clothes, and walk away with the briefcase.>

"Okay. I don't think any buildings by us are empty."

<None of the apartments are currently vacant?>

"I don't know. Maybe."

<If there's nowhere accessible from here where you won't be disturbed then it's harder, but maybe there's something. I'll look around.>

She does. Vacant apartments? Office buildings with unused space? Buildings with accessible roofs? Anywhere she could buy space, like a hotel or a warehouse?

There are offices that aren't used at night. The only unoccupied apartment is the show apartment. There's a shopping tower with a place undergoing renovations.

Which of these do the reds want to use.

Show apartment looks easiest to get out of.

Sounds good. She buys a change of clothes and puts it in show dresser drawers and tells them where it is and gets them a briefcase with sturdy string attached and puts it on several layers of plastic in a corresponding spot in the district so there's at least an argument that it's clean and this whole operation involves no pollution. She encourages them to practice at being cockroaches. 

She goes to the other districts to do the same.

They all pick spots. They practice.

And Isel writes on her consulting site that Rivik has repeatedly failed to comply with advice such as 1) do not send ten police officers to go beat reds to death over a possible noise complaint which no one else can hear and 2) establish a clear plan for the safe transfer of your reds out of your territory after they are done training replacements and 3) cut back as recommended on other activities which will increase tensions in red communities and that while she is optimistic about a positive outcome for them, due to these repeated compliance failures she cannot guarantee it. Other countries are encouraged to consider whether they are capable of sending maybe two officers to write tickets for noise complaints, in which case results remain guaranteed.

Somebody in Rivik's offices notices this update and objects that she has no evidence the cops were going to beat any reds to death.

She has her assistant mail them the list of recent Rivik police brutality incidents.

They don't do that every time.

She'd love to see records of handling of a complaint without inappropriate uses of force!

They don't keep records of that sort of thing in red neighborhoods.

Uh huh. Isel stands by her statement that Rivik has repeatedly failed to comply with their consultant's recommendations and that she should not be considered responsible for corresponding failures at a peaceful transition. 

(Isel needs her box back. Can they maybe put it in a bag she can lever out of the last district into their escape apartment, and then she will take it home and decontaminate it.)

(Yes.)

Isel dutifully scrubs the box. Isel checks on the status of the boat going to Miolee and the boat that's supposed to come wait in the harbor for her next batch of charges.

Boat to Miolee is halfway there. New boat nearly there.

Okay. She idly checks whether Rivik is horrible to people other than their reds.