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Odette and Illia land in Calado
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Great. Any ideas for improving it?

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If you instantly replace all the matter in a red from a clean source while the person is floating in the air and then do the same to any belongings they wish to retain the remaining headaches are all legislative.

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Great. Time to go induce headaches in some legislatures. Hey, Tapa, they can magic the reds clean, how does that sound.

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...then what would they do with them? And how would their jobs be done?

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Integrate them into society, once they're clean? And magic.

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That sounds hard, and they don't know magic.

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She can try to figure out how to teach people magic once she is confident this won't result in mass red killing, which seems much less likely now that they're cleanable but not zero likely if there aren't plans for what to do with them after!

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So they might not even be able to do magic.

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...How about Odette cleans the reds at the north pole and they try to teach them magic and she gets back to them.

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Teaching reds magic seems like a terrible idea.

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Clean ones. It's different.

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They'd still probably murder roboticists if they got the chance.

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They're at the north pole. It takes a lot more than beginner level to get away from the north pole, Odette and Illia have both been doing this for two Amentan years and Illia couldn't get from the north pole to roboticists trivially, Odette can do it because she's really really good at magic.

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They might tell unclean reds how to do it.

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Fine. How do they propose she find out if it's possible to teach Amentans magic.

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She should teach clean ones.

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She is concerned that this would result in murdered reds.

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Picky, picky. Doesn't she care about clean people at all?

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She does but murdering people with magic is serious business. It is not allowed. At all.

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Is that beginner stuff?

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Depends on how you do it but yes, it is not at all difficult to murder someone if you have magic and they don't.

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Then if the reds told other reds then roboticists would die. Innocent roboticists! With families!

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She said fine already.

...Clean Amentans can apply to learn magic with the caveat that she has the right to reject them if for any reason they are not convincing that they would be responsible magic-users and they are risking trying and failing anyway if it turns out Amentans can't. Applications are to be submitted online to this email address (not her personal one, she created a new one for the purpose.) Anyone from any nation or caste can apply; if she decides to teach someone from a country she is not in she will figure out how to make it happen and there are applications of magic for all castes, like healing would probably be orange and agricultural magic purple and genetic engineering green.

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Lots of people want to learn magic!!!

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She comes up with an application form to fill out! It has some personality-quiz stuff as a first pass at guessing talent and resistance, and some "what would you do in the following distressing circumstances, with and without magic" questions, one of which involves an encounter with a red, and the final question asks the applicants to identify things about themselves that would make them an unusually good choice to learn magic.

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