Haha, yeah. They'll be all BUT DID YOU SHOWER.

I was seven--uh, almost two, our years are the length of one of your seasons. I have showered in the fourteen years-slash-seasons since this trip!

But there is a set of specific theologically approved kinds of soap! And a five hour process!

Yeah fuck that. My pain tolerance having been developed for magic I just found it easier to have the offending tissues literally removed and replaced after touching things at the north pole.

Hardcore.

I don't want to spend five hours showering! That sounds like such a horrible waste of time!

I've never tried it personally. It does sound tedious.

I have better things to do with my life. Hurting at least only lasts a little bit.

Long as the theologians say it's fine I guess nobody'll be on your case about it.

I specifically emailed one to check first!

It's weird to be talking to someone who also corresponds with theologians.

Does it help that I'm secretly mocking and/or insulting them in my head most of the time?

Yes.

I am! Their concerns are mostly stupid! Their apathy towards you is contemptible!

Awwww.

I said killing reds would be bad and they asked why and I wanted to slap them!

What'd you do instead?

Tried to explain via metaphor that sent them rambling off on a tangent about a detail in the metaphor instead of getting the message.

Greens.

To be fair, out of the people who I think fit pretty well into the caste system, my dad would be so green and he does not have this problem. But yes.

I'd be green if I could pick. I'd sing. But greens, though.

Yeah.

My mom is one of the ones that don't place as easily and I suddenly had the thought: "what if the answer is red because awful shit happened to her when she was a teenager"

Speaking of things to never say to a clean Amentan

I don't think anyone thinks trauma makes you red.

Yeah but being smart doesn't make you green if you happen to be born to the wrong parents and we're casteless aliens.

I think you've lost me.