They appear in midair, visible out of a few thirtieth-floor apartments.
One starts to fall. The other catches her by the arm, flings out - wing-shapes of light - and slows her, spiraling down until they're at street level.
They appear in midair, visible out of a few thirtieth-floor apartments.
One starts to fall. The other catches her by the arm, flings out - wing-shapes of light - and slows her, spiraling down until they're at street level.
"Great!"
And she writes the reds:
As I imagine you heard on the news, there are aliens. They're upset about the treatment of reds and want to bribe people with planets to get better about that. Can you think of simple, concrete reforms that are worth demanding and that'll be a good idea in other countries as well as here? We're discussing getting somewhere to put Biyan's reds - a rainforest now, a planet later. Suggestions are welcome there, too.
Why are they upset about us?
Everywhere should do our social worker replacement scheme and the cameras.
Delivery chutes.
The aliens can do planets? That's the first I heard of that for sure besides just guessing because aliens
They are upset about the treatment of reds because the treatment of reds is very bad. Planets aren't straightforward but we're negotiating for something.
My contacts who work in foreign affairs don't really think so but the aliens are going to try.
Even if they can't get Biyan's reds to the rainforest they're still going to own the rainforest, and own a planet eventually.
No idea, I'll ask. Anitam's not going to try to get rid of you guys until there's a planet to send you to, the right people came out ahead on all the alien stuff and anyway we want to keep the aliens happy.
They wouldn't let me near them, and everyone they did let near them would have been in a lot of trouble for saying anything that made the aliens upset. But the aliens flew around a bit and noticed and then confirmed on the internet.
We might be okay emailing normally, anyone abroad will need anonymous ways so they don't get in trouble for talking to the aliens
If anyone happened to have an opening to ask them what could be done for them with somewhere for them to go and the ability to go around invisibly and maybe teleport one or two people at a time, I'd be interested in the answer.
Yep. They were going to just grab every red out of Biyan but there are too many. (Also Biyan would drown in garbage. I am not sure if the aliens care about that.)
Their government certainly does. Anyway, if there's anything we can do it'd be good to hear about it.