This is not a very good basis on which to make international policy decisions.

Then the two year old girl and her father will go back to their distant cousin's house in the Free State of Oahk.

Meanwhile, Rindeya skips a day at the constituency office to see if anything happens and comes back the next.

"I worried about you!" says Wilindë brightly, but nothing else happens.

"...we've never met," says Rindeya.

"Oh, Elves have a thing where we can send people memories, Prince Nelyafinwë sent me what happened so I'd, uh, be able to be more sensitive. And then no one came."

"I wanted to see if you would actually have us all killed and replaced with foreign reds if we didn't come to the office."

"What?"

"The social worker said an Elf told her that they wanted reds to come to the office, and she asked what would happen to us if we didn't, and they said they could replace us with foreign reds. I can't imagine trying to cram twice as many reds into the same neighborhoods, so that wouldn't be very survivable."

"Uh. Someone did suggest getting immigrant reds but we'd just build a bigger neighborhood if we did that, we wouldn't - you thought if you didn't come we'd kill you -"

"...yes, that's why we paid Colse to come here."

"Oh. Well. We were really upset that we couldn't get any of you to come in but we'd never kill people over it. I'm so sorry you were scared."

"Why did you fire the social workers we already had?"

"We asked them why you didn't want to come in and asked them to ask you to and they were really unhelpful and didn't really seem to understand you at all and still none of you were coming in. So."

"They could have gotten us to send someone too if they'd said something that sounded like 'or you all die'."

"Or they could have explained to us why you were scared to come!"

"Oh, they're not good at their jobs or anything, I'm not sure any red social worker has ever been good at their job, but that's not a problem you can solve by hiring replacements."

" - okay. We couldn't even find enough replacements."

"I'm not surprised."

"People are really weird about you all."

...Rindeya snorts slightly.

"Did you have anything or did you just not want to push it too far on the not dying -"

"Somebody got on the 304 today, they didn't get stopped."

"- well yeah. Prince Nelyafinwe can be accused of many things but not forgetting to do things he said he would."

"Then I guess I don't have any news you'll find interesting."

"I'm glad you can take the roads you pay for."