"It's a worthy ambition. In the meantime, can you make some polar region habitable with magic -"

"Yes. But I would not like to forcibly relocate reds to a place with no Springs."

"Can't give it seasons? They'll take it anyway, it's better than dying."

"I might be able to come up with a way to give it seasons but that would take a while."

"Years?"

"Probably less than one, but also probably more than a couple of seasons. Less if I were working on this full time."

"Then I really think you should relocate them, tell them it might be a few years until they have a spring, they'll be fine with it, it'll take a few years to get their replacements trained and all of them sent there in the first place."

He nods. "That could work then."

"And figuring out how to season the poles has other benefits."

"Oh?"

"Uh, you could buy them all up, season them, let people live there, become outrageously rich -"

"I suppose becoming outrageously rich is useful, isn't it? Still, I wasn't planning on going public quite this soon."

"I could buy the land up, announce we're packing our reds off there where perhaps they'll freeze or perhaps they'll cope who really cares, arrange for the reds to be told otherwise, and count on the total disinterest of anybody in checking how the reds are doing until you are ready to go public and can sell off the clean land."

He nods. "That could work. Would people really just believe reds would decide to go somewhere terrible?"

"They'd believe that we decided to send them there."

"And that they docilely went?"

"People are very docile at gunpoint."

"And other countries wouldn't do that because why would they want to buy land like that, right."

"Most everything to be done about reds is much more expensive than shooting them and still not good enough to stop them from rioting, which is the only meaningful disincentive to shooting them. I have a cousin who does red relations, she'll be able to convince them to tolerate being packed off to the poles."

"And will they want evidence?"

"Probably, but she'll be able to figure out what evidence and how you can conveniently provide it. "you're the person who went around stealing heaters to save them all in the storm" might be sufficient, it's a - credible signal."

He nods. "That makes sense."

"The Orvaran ones being set up there and able to confirm on the internet that it doesn't suck will be another credible signal."

"It's—more difficult, with my magic, to set up the internet there, so I presume you'll be able to?"

"It is technologically straightforward. I don't actually have enough money to purchase all the land we might want but I can borrow it from family."