wish they could whip up planets faster so we could have it for people to see

dunno if that would help here

gonna ask my parole officer if i can go hop the bus around talking to people

cool. if you need a native guide or whatever lemme know

that'd be great

he said what would I do if I see the mugger again, i said give him a hug and get drinks when we're done canvassing

he said okay

pfffff does he know about the jetskis and ice cream

i said we'd stayed in touch but not details cuz like

the court would be happy about it and possibly cut me some slack and that's - not the point?

i didn't want it to be about that

even retroactively

dude if you can get slack for taking me out for ice cream go for it

it's not like they're being hardasses about it as is but okay

i'll be in the usual spot at 4 

with the old bus, the shuttle's too big to take around all over the place

see you

He has the old bus and a supervisor. He does give him a hug. There's a sign on the bus. It says 'fare: free but you have to fill out your ballot and tell all your friends to'.

"Yo," says the mugger, who has absolutely had a name all this time and is called Cahmro.

"Hey. This is an Earth school bus, I bought it for like two hundred bucks when the district consolidated and got it running again myself. Well, with my dad. Where we going?"

"Around my neighborhood, I guess?"

"Sure." Pop.

And they can bother random majority-purples about voting.

"Purples are the ones that matter," Dave says to his parole supervisor. "You know their system, right -"

      "Not really."

"Like, pretty much all real jobs are purple. Mechanic, that's purple, construction, that's purple, farmer's purple, miner's purple, factory's purple, girl jobs - hairstylist, housekeeper -"

"Girl jobs?" blinks Cahmro.

" - you know, like, nail stuff and clothing stores and eyelash curling or whatever - those are all purple too -"

"...wouldn't girl jobs be like... uh... surrogacy? ...wetnursing?"

"...I don't think we have those. Are they purple?"

"Surrogacy's anybody, it's just being pregnant. Wetnursing is like if you don't think formula's good enough for some reason and the baby's mom isn't able to breastfeed you can hire somebody and I think it's orange."

"Okay but like are there guys who want to be nail artists and makeup people and hairstylists."

"............yeah? I interviewed at a hair place once. Didn't take me, though."

"Huh." There are people gathered. "Have y'all voted? You should, you get a planet if you vote and you don't get a planet if you don't vote, that's, like, a shitton of power and you are gonna be great with it."