instead of Tapa having the prettiest buildings, Calado does
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Nod.

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"Trespassing. Do you want to plead guilty or not?"

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"No."

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"Pollution violations."

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"I -" She shivers. "I don't know the text of Calado law on that -"

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"It is illegal under Calado law for an unclean person to leave a red district without standard precautions to reduce contact with their environment, to touch things outside a red district or leave unclean things outside a red district without marking them for a cleanup crew, or to arrange for someone else to do the same."

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"Well. I guess that happened."

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"Do you mean that you want to plead guilty?"

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"I - I - no."

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"Not guilty, or do you need more time to think?"

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"They - they - I don't know -"

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"If there are mitigating circumstances - leaving during an emergency, forgetting to mark something because you were in a hurry to get help, touching a child who ran up to you - that gets considered in sentencing."

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"It was - nobody was around except those greys and some purples - they were - they called me over and I wouldn't go and they said they thought they'd seen my baby go under the fence but she didn't -"

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"- we don't arrest people under three anyway -"

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"Nobody else was there, they could have hurt her."

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"Okay. So they asked you to leave your district, and said something that caused you to be afraid they'd harm your daughter, and you left the district?"

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"They hurt me."

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"It sounds to me like on all four charges you should have a lawyer to help assemble evidence for your side of the story."

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"Mmhm."

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"All right. I'll assign someone. He'll get in touch with you - in - twenty, thirty minutes."

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Nod.

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Screen goes blank.

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Her hands hurt. She doesn't play piano.

She emails the babysitter to ask if she got Katin and slumps on a cozy couch and waits.

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Yellow calls half an hour later.

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She answers.

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