"Mom was really strict about Mandarin immersion lessons when I was little because she was positive the school would try to stick me with it if I didn't already have it, what with half the students speaking it. One of her brothers got spellblocked." 

"Yikes. I don't think most Anglo kids wind up with it but it's a good one to have, I guess."

"I got pretty into it once I realized it would let me safely yell 'get out of the way' to twice as many kids!" 

"I guess that would be the use case." Snort.

Snort. "Maybe I'll get a little more benefit of the doubt from Shanghai now, since I've been saving Sino kids as well as Anglo all along." 

When they get the three power-sharers from Bangkok, Lucia looks at one and goes, "Oh, neat, they have the peril detectors." 

"Then shouldn't they be going off at all times?"

She waves a hand dismissively. "Acute peril, not chronic peril. At least if they work anything like New York." 

"Are we going to be getting shrieked at every time one of the Bangkok kids has something come through their vent at night or leap at them from a supply cupboard?"

"Depends how sensitively they're set? And how big a thing is jumping at them out of a cupboard. But, like, those things do happen less to enclavers, mine didn't go off more often than once or twice a week." 

"Grand. We'll discover empirically if they are in some important technical sense 'enclavers'."

"The mals don't care where we live when we're at home, they care who's powerful, and with power sharers, we are."

"And the bare fact of having backup helps, too." 

"Will it tell us who's in it? Where they are? How bad it is?"

"Well, these might not work exactly the same as the New York ones, but if they do, then you get direction, distance, and, if applicable, number--when, uh, the library happened, I could tell that several New Yorkers were in trouble, but not actually which ones." 

"Well, that'll have us and the Bangkok kids showing up to one another's perilousnesses. Charming."

"Well, it'll also let you know if Aadhya or Liu encounter especial peril." 

"Yeah. Just imagining thinking it's one of them and running to the rescue and it's some bloke whose name I can't recall who I share no languages with and who vaguely hates me."

"Well, we can all share around our schedules so you'll know where to expect us to be, directionally, any given time of day, and not trouble yourself if it's not one of us. Pity we don't have a spare for Lucia, though, seems like it would make her life easier and I'm sure I could figure out the block now that I'm not desperately mass-producing beads."

"It's inconvenient but it's not like I don't spend most of my time around at least one of you, and anyway, you need that time to work on the harp." 

"And my cool spiky pikey."

"It's gonna be so cool!!!!!"

"Are you gonna want it, when it's done?"

Bounce bounce. "I mean, I shouldn't hog all of the sharp objects? But yes." 

"You can sell off your least favorite sword or something."