They circle the planet and look at the architecture. They are somewhat disappointed.
"Maybe the aliens think they're pretty," someone says dubiously.
"No," someone else says. "Some things are universal."
"Maybe the aliens are all blind."
"That makes more sense."
"Well we have to pick somewhere."
This place has a lovely large statue-garden-monument thing that Elves would not go out of their way to avoid if it were in Tirion, though they'd probably walk through it quickly. They go for that one.
Should I visit you and try not to be visibly genocidal at the neighbors?
You should probably be aware that I fuck people for money, who knows what they'll say if you come visit and disappear into my stolen van.
The thing I was going for was 'gosh, that doesn't look like a person who is going to order us all murdered' but I don't especially mind if Amentans think I am paying you for sex.
Then you should totally come disappear into my stolen van! I can be publicly alive afterwards, it'll be great.
There are rows of tents and a fence around them and a stolen van! Peka is sitting by it with her baby, who is chewing on her knee.
"It comes in orange. If I try to dye it, this age, she'll turn her head and it'll get it in her eyes or something. My parents had to do the same thing to me until there was enough color in mine, used to pass for white."
"Huh. Elf hair is differently heritable, I think if we started out with the variety you've got we'd all be brown after enough generations."
"I'm pretty sure brown is impossible even if you have, like, purple marrying yellow or blue marrying orange. You can get sort of muddy shades?"
"Do colors otherwise mix like paint would - will blue and red get your purple, or blue and yellow get green -"
"I never heard of blue and red happening. It's probably happened ever but people don't go crowing in the streets even if they hook up with the shop suppliers, let alone find blues. Uh, blue and yellow can get green-ish but not so you'd actually guess green, or anyway not so you'd guess two green parents."
"Huh. People don't talk about hooking up out-of-caste because you could get in trouble for it, or it's disloyal, or it's weird, or..."
"It's - well, for one thing it often means you've got money and you don't want people coming after you for it - and if the relationship, uh, sucks, it's - better if nobody feels inspired to heroics - and they usually don't last - and you can't get married - and whoever you're hooking up with won't be telling anybody - and it just sort of adds up to, people might know but you don't say."
She opens Katin's hand and removes a beetle and flicks it away before the unfortunate beetle is food.
"Orange boy. Met him following Mom to work. Shouldn't've been alone with him, not in springtime - but it was springtime and he was friendly and he wanted to touch me -"
" - why shouldn't you be alone with people in springtime, does it impair judgment or something -"
"...in springtime one can get pregnant. Would've let him if it'd been winter still or if he'd warned me and I'd taken something..."
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