"There are blueberries, and some blue vegetables and some blueish breads..."

"Hm, I might like those but that's not very many things, I will probably just have to have lots of food coloring."

"Probably. Maybe you only need a tiny bit of food coloring to get the effect."

"Maybe!"

Pat pat. "We were going to start interviewing nannies for you this week, but if you think you'd rather go to work most days we can do that instead."

"And if I ever can't go to work for some reason I can just go to grandparents'?"

"Yes, exactly."

"Sounds good."

"It will be fun to get to spend so much time with you!"

"And you won't have to take off work for it!"

"We do not mind taking off from work when we're not in the middle of an emergency. But yes."

"How often are there emergencies?"

"Maybe once a year something this urgent will happen. I guess perhaps we should expect that to happen more often now, if other countries copy Orvara."

"Are they gonna?"

"I hope not. I don't know."

Nod.

Lintalai has a surprise cousin the next week. The details are a little fuzzy, Aitim stays at work late, but it seems like the baby's mother did not tell him she was expecting until the baby was born and she reached out to him for help with the credit.

Also the Orvaran reds for whom visas were approved get relocated.

The surprise cousin is really teeny.

"He's purple."

"His mom was purple. Mixed kids can turn out either way."

"Purples don't get the most interesting stuff to do."

"Better than green."

"I think green is pretty good!"

"Green sucks."

"People are different, and usually the sort of people who are born purple think purple is better than green and the sort of people who are born green think green is better than purple, but not always."

"Well I hope this baby likes purple."