"Ah." He looks at Aitim.

"I don't think so," Aitim says.

"There you go, then, none of me hate you."

"Okay. Good."

"Can't speak to the magic dog, I don't have a magic dog. Don't even have a regular dog, my place is too small for that. My ex had a dog, I hope that wasn't the counterpart to my Elf's magic dog which I was supposed to bond with or something."

"Giant wolfhoundy type named something like 'Huan'?"

"Nope! Good, that'd be awkward."

"Possibly."

"I don't think I even knew about this ex."

"This is the one who talked me into dyeing my hair and enlisting! Which I don't regret at all, because how would I have met Peka otherwise - but he thought the whole thing with Peka was kind of weird."

"It's not every day you go ask the unit red what she's yelling about on the phone and wind up smuggling her across the border!" She passes Aitim the fruit salad.

...Aitim is in fact too blue to sputter but he is the only person at the table this is true of.

"Well, he didn't know that part. That was why I left, actually, we could probably have worked past 'picked up a Tapai girl and her daughter and smuggled them home' but I was kind of worried he'd ask people in her unit about her or something -"

"I didn't know you broke up with your boyfriend for me, that's sweet."

Cam looks around to see if he needs to judge anyone.

Well, none of them are eating. But also none of them have grabbed an appropriate stick to murder Peka with, is he impressed?

Enh.

" - wait, what happened -"

"Peka was red and they were gonna kill the kid. I said that in my experience if your caste didn't suit you you could just kind of dye your hair and get a new one."

"My god."

"It totally worked. I was right."

Peka leans on Makel.

Makel hugs her.

"You could've all gotten yourselves killed -"

"I mean I wasn't actually planning to tell an interviewer 'yeah it was entirely my idea', if it came out. - unless it would've stopped Tapa from freaking out and going after the whole neighborhood, then I might've -"