:I'm sorry: Jisa thinks for a moment, munching bread. :Um, do all countries enslave elementals or only some of them?: 

:Rixo used to be part of a big empire that fragmented. The empire enslaved elementals. I don't know about places that were never part of it:

:How long ago did the empire fragment? Do you know what made it fall?: 

:Not that long ago but I don't know how long exactly... I think the emperor freed his elementals and died:

:How much does that happen? People deciding to free their elementals, I mean: 

:Almost never any more:

:Is that because the elementals always kill the person freeing them: 

:I guess that would be a reason:

:Do the humans have laws or institutions or military organizations built around capturing elementals? What's the organization setup there, or is it just random people with magic doing it?: 

:It's just random people taking up hunting:

:If I decided to start freeing a lot of elementals, would the humans mount some kind of organized response?: 

:I'd think so:

:What would that look like? Do they have an army?:

:I don't think they leave one lying around all the time but they'd raise one, I think:

Jisa's head is starting to ache. Trying to plan an entire war by herself, it turns out, is really hard! 

:How long would that take?: she asks. 

:I have no idea:

:What about combat magic? I guess mages can make the elementals who're still enslaved fight - do they have their own magic they can use for that too?: 

:Yes. Not as strong as ours but they can do combinations, and make artifacts:

:And - how about free elementals? How powerful is one of you in a fight, compared to a mage?: 

:They can amulet us pretty fast if they have one ready. We're stronger if it gets toe to toe but they don't have to let it, and usually bring slaves along to hunt anyway:

Jisa thinks hard. 

:- I think I need to steal one of the amulets. So I can figure out how it works, and - maybe I can make a new kind of magic shield for you that stops it from working. Do you know where they're made, or stored, I don't know, just somewhere I could maybe steal one that's not around a person's neck?: 

:They aren't wearing the ones here all the time. I should ask the other elementals, here, if there's anything else you should know - or you can, so no one hears:

:I should do that: Jisa agrees, and starts reaching around with Thoughtsensing for other nearby minds. 

There are five more elementals currently not checked out and hanging around in the barracks. Water, Shine/Shadow hybrid, Fire, Earth, Wood. There is also a student mage keeping watch over the amulets but only wearing two of them at the moment (the hybrid and the Fire).

Jisa might as well just try to Mindspeak all of them at once, it's not that much harder than doing one at a time. She gives her by now very practiced speech about being from another world and wanting to rescue the enslaved elementals but needing more information to plan, and then she repeats her question about stealing an amulet to study.