Agreed. Emergency trumps permission. But Kiki doesn’t apparently understand that yet, so she’ll just have to uneasily accept this as permission for the duration of this crisis. Maybe she’ll understand eventually, maybe she won’t. It’s hard to say, as some system members develop really fast for their ages (sometimes even the system’s age) and other times develop really slowly.

I’ve only known a few systems, but most of them had one or two child headspace members and multiple members who were only really capable of handling one thing, for example cooking. One of those not getting social dynamics was more expected than not. But sometimes, they were still able to learn.

It’s also conceivable that even if Kiki doesn’t really grasp that later, Atarangi will explicitly give her permission to front if Atarangi’s out of it like this at some point in the future, providing a middle ground between understanding ’emergencies are exceptions to many of the rules’ and ‘need permission for any public fronting’.