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There are a lot of Amentan countries. Vanda Nossëo representatives are dispatched to all of them. These Elves (two with black hair, one with silver) take a shuttle down from the lightleaper to a country called Calado, and radio ahead to request permission to land at a elegant modern spaceport.
okay by comparison Voa and Tapa look like thriving modern democracies
"It's really better to do this neighborhood by neighborhood. This one has a nearby neighborhood that can take over in case whatever replacement you had in mind doesn't quite fill the gap. It's an awkward time of year but anyone who can't morph can move into a different one till they're better able."
"I'll see about arranging medical transport for anybody who is disabled such that that's not an option."
Vanda Nossëo emails the district to let the reds know that Tapa's going to run a trial of having them morph into clean bodies and then integrate as clean citizens. There'll be shuttles to pick them up from such-and-such location in three days, please let them know about anyone who can't safely get to the shuttles and they'll arrange alternate accommodations. They can send questions about the process here.
He tells the Tapai reds that they should pick the caste in which they'll be most able to get a job, obviously. He figures Tapa won't be thrilled but better to ask forgiveness than permission.
(Peka's tent is bigger. It has a piano.)
There are shuttles at the promised location.
touchme
Piano! ...what happens when she has to move the tent.
Reds get onto the shuttle. Some of them have a hard time but they all make it.
Oh, it doesn't weigh anything more than it did before, and it rolls up fine. Everything is still there when she opened it. One of the containers of bubble bath spilled.
The shuttle drops them off in a shiny facility in Casentar that has pollution areas and non-pollution areas meticulously delineated and lots of journalists waiting on the non-pollution side. Some of the journalists decided it was not worth waiting and are on the pollution side filming.
They touch one of these boxes, they touch samples for hair color, they can touch themselves and their family to get a new body that's genetically very similar to their current one, they should aim for the age they want to be, they should practice morph awhile until they've got something they're satisfied with, then they can take a decontamination shower and cross through to the other side! Journalists snap pictures.
Yeah, you morph a blend including your desired hair color! There are volunteers who explain and try to describe how to do it. Some people will probably require some practice to get it.
...so they should probably set up a hotel in the polluted sector, then, for pregnant people their partners and people with babies to stay until the babies are old enough to morph safely.
"My husband already went ahead -"
"My first two kids -"
A lot of people have fetal or pregnant relatives.
" - right. Okay."
"We could just say we morphed the babies, it's not even a real thing -"
"Someone could leak it though."
"Well, we can accommodate everybody who wants to stay with a baby or pregnant person, if Tapa's not going to fuss about not getting all of them back -"
"They're not, they're not that good at pretending to care."