"...if they haven't been doing it for generations and they don't work a lot and they definitely wash they're probably all right? I think so, anyway."

"Okay. No one does that full-time and I can ask if anyone has parents who also did it. If there's a problem please call us in so we can figure out how to prevent it, don't - attack them or anything, they're perfectly ordinary people who'd be very upset at it."

"I won't, the greys are the ones I'd worry about there."

"I will have someone drop by and discuss with them how we can prevent problems."

Nod.

"Anything else I can do for you today? What sort of jobs are you looking for?"

"I'm not sure yet what's available - they were talking like you'd place us personally but I assume there's some kind of listings really -"

"There are if you'd rather. I do lots of the hiring for government work because I like to be very sure of the people who report to me in a crisis but outside government work I'd just be recommending you to people I think you'd get along with."

"I did government work at home but doubt the experience transfers. I was sort of a supplement to a senator's secretary; I could fill in for him if he was absent and otherwise carried messages and took constituent calls and things like that."

"There are roles like that here, if you liked the work. It's not atypical to take a constituent support role and then take on larger local projects and then end up mayor of somewhere, I'm unclear on whether Amentans are psychologically different from us such that they couldn't do that or wouldn't want to or just wouldn't be allowed."

"It's - well, some things are different castes in different places, like medicine or sex work, things like that - it's not hardwired just a suitedness thing -"

"So we don't need to worry about avoiding putting you into a position that'd be a dead end if we had Calado rules, if it turns out you're suited fine to being mayor of some place then you can just go ahead and do that?"

"I guess I could..."

"If we import more Amentans they might get upset about it?"

"They'd think it was strange - maybe that it was just a yellow thing here and that blues here weren't to be mayors -"

" - huh. I don't mind accommodating your differences in aptitudes but I'm very reluctant to put the force of law behind them, is there any reason we need to preemptively handle that or can we wait until it comes up -"

"...maybe have a plan for what to do then? The outline of one anyway."

He nods. " - all right." Her device flashes. "I've sent you some recommendations for jobs to check out and contacts to message if you need anything or think of anything we ought to know."

"All right - do most of the electronic interfaces here work similarly to the bracelets?"

"We interact with most of them through the chips, we're still figuring something out for that. But yes, same basic user interface."

"Thank you."

"Of course." He nods at the door. "Ambiel will take you across the street to the apartments."

And she goes and meets Ambiel and goes to join her husband.

And he puts together two hundred people who are going to Calado with him.

He tells their sort-of-hosts that he's agreed to go to that university and teach physics.