Calado can have its little shuttle again. 

No one else tries to hold one up.

" - so I'll admit I'm curious," says the emissary to Celenta to his liaison, "why does anybody still live in Calado? Elendil's nice, they've got the language - I get why they'd have wanted to dip their toes in the water first but it's been months now, they could have lined up jobs, and to all appearances Calado is a disaster."

"They like their homes? Fear the unknown? Don't want to live around reds and aliens?" guesses the liaison, shrugging.

"So long as it's not, like, some cultural assumption that we should be doing something about. I think practically all the reds went to Ambaróna or Casentar or Mîr."

"They might be assuming you're aliens who don't care about pollution and are humoring us, but that's actually true."

"Kind of the only way to make relations between thousands and thousands of different species work, humoring one another."

"Sure. You'll get a jump in the spring."

Mugger gets a court-ordered apology note from bus guy. 

Hey, it says. I hope getting an email isn't stressful, I told them you wouldn't want to talk to them but I think they were going to go anyway, in case I intimidated you into saying that or something. Did you want specific magic stuff? I can probably get you specific magic stuff the legal way. (Not personally, I'm not allowed back in Calado, but I could ship them if you would like that. I apologize for dropping you in the ocean. I just wanted somewhere the gun wouldn't go off and I would never have let you drown but you couldn't have known that. Also if you had shot me you would probably have drowned so I apologize for putting you in that position.

- Dave

...the mugger replies I didn't want anything special I just thought I could sell it.

Oh. 

Was the gun loaded?

Yeah

why did you need money?

why do you wanna know?

Dunno. First letter was court-ordered but now it's just - there hasn't been an unsolved crime in my planet in my lifetime, I can't really imagine a place where it's a good way to make money. 

keep getting fired

is that normal in Calado or do you tell your boss to fuck off a lot or something 

sometimes that mostly just late or taking off too much

most places just give people enough money to live even if they're shit at working

good for them

why not go to one of those 

reasons

ok

why are you even emailing me

Wish everyone lived in nice places. Don't really get why they don't.