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Isel goes skiing and tries not to be grouchy and checks for messages from reds.

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They trickle in. Naming greys and blues and occasional others who abused them, clients who don't pay, partners overstaying their welcome.

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Clients can get an automatic bill from a new electronic billing system, where if they don't pay it shows on their credit record. Partners might like to plead to tax fraud. Evidence, neatly summarized, occasionally can be forwarded to judges with the information that Isel wants this person out of the way or slapped on the wrist and it'd be a bonus if the legal justification were related to the abusing reds. 

She gives good presents.

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Many judges are receptive to some combination of presents, sticking it to Oahkars, and principle about rule of law extending even to not-cleaned reds.

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She takes special note of the ones for whom it seems to be that last thing. The government doesn't want to clean the reds here until things are less in flux; also it's gotten pricier. But things won't be in flux forever. 

 

She mentions on the website that the TV crew wanted to meet some native reds but she turned them down, said the reds would be scared.

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Why did the TV crew want to meet them?

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They're from a place without reds (they don't have a caste system, so some people do gross jobs but their descendants wouldn't, particularly) and they don't think reds are gross and it'd probably interest their television audience back home.

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But they have red haired people doing red things. If... floatily.

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They're called angels, Isel can totally arrange for the reds to meet them if the reds would like. Angels do do red jobs for humans (and orange jobs, angels are good for medicine too) but because there isn't the history, humans don't think much of it.

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...hmmmm.

A few adventurous reds are willing.

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Isel summons angels and explains that reds really liked that there were reds in the videos and want to meet them, she'll pay for their time and they'll need to do the changing-a-layer-of-skin thing afterwards.

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Some of the angels will be happy to go meet them! Do they need to red their hair again?

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It will probably help! It has been explained that Earth doesn't work that way but it's still meaningful here.

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The angels red their hair various red shades.

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Isel arranges everybody a meeting place.

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Adventure reds and red angels congregate.

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She leaves them to it.

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Are the angels allowed to explain where they came from or no?

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They can explain everything except that they are summonable, same reasons as on old Amenta.

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Angels head over! Some of them have done implausible hair things like having every strand a different shade. All of them have feathery wings. 

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Adventurous reds are still nervous.

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"Hello! Did you like the video, it was fun to shoot -"

     "I had the hardest time explaining it to my friends - 'see, these people do a thing when they have a war where they change what's on television in order to tell everyone to go along with the war, and it's so common they say that the people they're warring with would be scared if they didn't do it..."

    "Earth had that thing too, back when Earth had wars."

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"Everybody was watching it when we had free time."

"Earth doesn't have wars?"

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"Not anymore, no, they stopped a long time ago." 

      "Do you think it worked at getting people to go along with the war?"

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"I don't know anyone in the military..."

"My cousin is, she said it freaked the greys right out."

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