Isel goes to find her cousin. "You asshole. They're terrified."

"Yeah. I'd rather be terrified for a day than slowly starving to death for months, wouldn't you?"

"- sure but 'not terrify them' was an option."

"It is not obvious to me how I could've not terrified them."

"I got a red who was apprised of the whole situation and knows me and knows I don't suck to come explain things to them, you could've taken that one with you to Orvara."

" - yeah, fair."

"You asshole."

"Why exactly didn't you get to it, what was higher on the priority list -"

"I didn't even know any of them were still alive and I didn't have anywhere to put them -"

"Now you do."

"I would punch you but then I'd have to shower."

"Up to you."

She does not punch him. She brings the angel the rabbits, in four neat cages with plenty of rabbit food.

"Oh gosh, they look just like rabbits except for how they obviously aren't, awwwww," says the angel. "These aren't neutered or anything, are they?"

"Um," says the bilingual red, a little distracted from whatever she was going to tell the other reds by the winged people.

"The pet store only sells neutered, by law, unless you've got a license. I got documentation on the procedure in case you or some other angel wants to figure out how to reverse it." And to the red -"...this is a military secret I'm not allowed to tell you about. I guess Telkam could make himself useful and tell you about them since he's already told lots of people he wasn't supposed to tell."

"They're aliens. They're doing healing."

"...oh...kay..." says the bilingual red, and she starts talking to the other reds in Orvaran.

Isel can mostly follow.

"This is Isel, she does red stuff here in Anitam -"

"We're in Anitam?"

"...yes. And these are aliens who are helping you because the - grey - told them to. Isel says he's really helping."

"The one with the suntan moved us around like - like -"

"I don't really know about that part besides that they're aliens, I'm sorry."

Isel would really like to glare daggers at Telkam but the reds would be more stressed if she were mad. She checks her email instead.

The bilingual red continues attempting to reassure them and then asks Isel if it's okay for her to talk to the aliens to find out what's going on.

"Yes, for sure."

Bilingual red gets an explanation of what the angel and fairy are doing and translates it.

"What's going to happen when the aliens are done with us -" asks an Orvaran red.

"Uh - Isel says you can stay here for now -"

"What about after for now -"

"They can stay here until we figure out somewhere safe for them."

She translates.

"But where -"