"What is it you want with us exactly...?"

"...to be happy? Whatever that means for you - obviously I bet the government wants a way to safely talk to reds like anything, but you have no more obligation to be an activist than the rest of us."

"...I don't understand why you didn't email them."

"...we would need to know the email addresses and they don't talk to us even that much."

"There are the ones for work orders and the social workers have some."

"The social workers haven't, uh, struck us as trustworthy or a good source. And governments could probably read them so people are really worried it'd be too dangerous for the reds to answer."

"...the thing they tried instead was going into our neighborhood."

"Oh, they got arrested for that. But it's really not at all obvious to aliens that monitored online communications via the form for work orders is the best way to meet you. It's, uh, really really really not how we would generally make contact. If you recommend it I'm sure they'll listen, but..."

"It's better than going into the neighborhood."

"They know that. Like I said, they got arrested for that. But, uh, if there were something the government couldn't read I bet they would be excited about that."

"We don't really have anything like that."

"...figures. Okay. If you'd like I'll tell them that emails are better than any other way."

"If you have ways they can write back that aren't email you can say that."

"I think they did say that, on the news. ...maybe Rivik censored it."

"...if you just say things on the news reds won't assume you're talking to us."

"...oh."

...shrug.

"Well. They're really really sorry about bothering your district and investigating everyone responsible and it will never happen again and now you're here."

"I guess it would be a bad idea to go home."

"...would it?"

"...since the government is probably upset now and so on."

"I don't know how closely they keep track of you, you could maybe get a teleport in. But I think they're pretty upset, yeah."

"So then I might just die again and you said you have a - limited number of these -"

"Most years we get everybody back, even if we have to do a bunch of scrambling for it, but it's always close. It would be good to spend spare ones on other people you know who were murdered and would like to come back, but no one's going to tell you not to choose to go home to your family. You could get made indestructible and then go back, but that's really expensive, worse than resurrections."

"I - don't have much -"