"Um. Thank you. How do I pay you -"

"You paid when you placed the order."

         "My treat," Tannelë says. "I can expense it. One platter feeds four, but this way you'll have leftovers."

"...okay."

Reds investigate food.

Everything platters, perhaps predictably, have fourteen little mini entrees! Some of them are delicious and some of them are a little weird.

Nibble nibble. Nibble.

Tannelë shows them how to message people and how to direct-message people - "which goes to our chips and plays in our heads, so you mostly want to keep it short -" and where the train station is and where the grocery store is - "I'll be back in the morning and I'd be happy to take you, but if you want to try going out - is there anything else you'll need tonight? There are toiletries in the bathrooms -"

"Are we going to recognize any of them -"

"- possibly not. And they're labelled but you haven't got Allspeak yet. Okay, this is soap and this is shampoo and this is toothpaste -"

They nod along.

And she tells them not to hesitate to interrupt her even in the middle of the night, and she leaves.

They do not feel the need to interrupt her in the middle of the night.

"We relocated a couple hundred people today," Macalaurë says to Peka that evening. "The plan was to explain everything over internet forums in advance so they knew what to expect and could vote on it and choose where to relocate to and feel like they had control over things, but this one country had already driven their reds out of one district and they were starving in the mountains -"

"Oh no - it's good you got them -"

Snuggle. "Yeah - I think they'll settle in okay -" shiver, hug - "I don't know how they live with themselves."

"...the other castes? They just - kinda hate us."

Sigh. Snuggle.

Snuggle!

Almarë answers forum questions, checks her email.

Kenyo's parents have emailed back saying that if he found someplace to go they will try their luck there.

Great. Where can she pick them up? 

They are at a cousin's house in a different city in the same country.

Okay. She is the alien emissary to reds and she spends time in red districts and is happy to come by their red district but people will probably worry to see her there, is there somewhere private she can pick them up from?

They're sort of crowded in here. They could, like, arrange to be in the back alley of the restaurant their cousin operates.

That works. They should take their things.

They did not have time to pack much when they fled but they will bring what they've got.