He leaves.

A few reds volunteer, including one currently in prison.

In prison for?

Beating up his daughter-in-law.

Absent significant mitigating information they will send the reds not currently in prison to Endorë.

There are four. The government gets concerned emails about making sure the lightleapers are not contaminated.

Thanks for your inquiry. We're abiding by all international agreements about transport of reds and polluted materials. The rooms being used for reds on this lightleaper will be thoroughly cleaned after use just as they would in the case of a passenger death on board.

Someone writes back that you have to be more careful with reds than with dead bodies because dead bodies don't move around touching things.

In both cases the procedure approved for lightleapers is to remove and replace all porous materials in the room and follow cleaning procedures for nonporous surfaces. This is due to the potential for furniture and objects to be jostled or substantially change position during acceleration.

And they're going to confine the reds to the rooms, not let them wander around?

Of course.

Okay good.

Elves live to serve their constituents even when their constituents are weird and wrong. 

Four reds get lightleapt to Endorë.

They stay docilely in their rooms, of course.

And there's plastic rolled out for disembarking. The spaceport is near the Dwarven state of Gabilgathol and the Elven ones of Doriath and Ossiriand. There are Dwarves and Elves waiting interestedly.

...the reds come out, sticking close together.

Elves have chip-loaded translation. "Welcome to Beleriand! How did you find the journey?"

"It was very comfortable."

"If it is agreeable to you we have a tour planned!"

"Okay."

They have a spacious comfortable open-air car for the tour; it pulls up and they agreeably talk over each other about all of the places it will go as they get in.

"Is there supposed to be plastic on the seats -"

"-no? Why? Would you like plastic on the seats?"

"...it's so we don't directly touch the car. So it will be clean."

"...if you would like we can ask someone to bring plastic. Does it have to be a particular kind?"

"It's not about - us preferring -" begins one of the reds, but she falls silent.