As she is holding Arl, she rubs her hand along his back. This is supposed to be a belonging evaluation, so affection should be the outward appearance and should be what the alien thinks is happening.

As she rubs along Arl's back, her personal protective system takes an immediate action. She does not have visual systems focused there, and she wants to keep everything stable. She has a good view of the park and Wroug Social Order officers. She accesses her protective event logs. Those systems acted on a fresh sign of a terrible contagion, and the protective system caused it to sterilize some of Arl's clothes. With her finger, she can feel the hole it made.

She knows not to keep a secret for important information like this. She has the communication ID of the Social Order officer, and forwards her log entries to her hand held data pad. The Wroug gets the message and looks at it, but then stands straight and holds that position.

The elLan considers the situation. She will keep this information for now. It was not an active infection, just a trace of something previous. The sterilization was automatically performed to confirm there was nothing active. The three of us have protective and health systems to keep us safe.

She decides to take an action, and places a swap plane bracelet on Arl. A few pleasant words, she stretches out his hand to place the bracelet, the swap proceeds. She feels along the back and discovers that the there is no longer a hole in Arl's clothes. When she looks to the other elLans, so she can exchange signals; those two do not reply. They just stare.

Arlow Tsai is nice looking. When swapped to a feminine version, all the features just clicked. She does not have makeup, but has a face where makeup is not missed. As a girl, Arl is a total 100% complete cutie.

Increasingly, many more Lan are watching the live feeds of this park.