They appear in midair, visible out of a few thirtieth-floor apartments.
One starts to fall. The other catches her by the arm, flings out - wing-shapes of light - and slows her, spiraling down until they're at street level.
They appear in midair, visible out of a few thirtieth-floor apartments.
One starts to fall. The other catches her by the arm, flings out - wing-shapes of light - and slows her, spiraling down until they're at street level.
"If reds were magic people wouldn't treat them better, they'd just panic and massacre them. It might stop people from seeing the humans as red in the first place."
"I think the way to do it is to get out the kids and then immediately contact the government and say the aliens dropped in to check on the kids, saw them being tortured, and took them somewhere safe. The aliens recommend, so as to avert further violence, that Biyan immediately escort all the adult reds out of their country. They think the reds are insane and evil; they shouldn't want them to have magic allies. Then maybe have a couple elementals around to observe if they don't mind doing that."
"- I think it'll get some of them out as opposed to none? I don't think it saves them all. I don't know how to save them all."
"I'll ask the elementals if any of them want to supervise. They aren't going to speak a word of whatever they speak in Biyan."
They can book a flight.
Isel lets Anitami reds know that it might be good for Biyan's reds to have a heads-up that if anything has happened to the kids, which she of course wouldn't know anything about personally, Biyan will lose its hostages tomorrow. And there'll be people waiting in the rainforest.
Aliens with healing powers. And possibly someone to take pictures, not that she expects the torture of red children to particularly shock the conscience but she at least wants it on the record.
"And we've got people who speak Biyani but they won't go hang out with red kids. I can probably send some reds who want to take care of kids and who can make do with internet translation."
Can she be recommended some Anitami reds who want to do that.
Is Aitim getting a paycheck for successfully wrangling the aliens into giving Anitam a planet.
He's got a pretty generous project expense budget but it probably won't extend to a red rescue that Anitam cannot afford to formally have anything to do with; people'd be mad at them if they let Biyan drown in garbage.
On the one hand the longer they wait the better the replacements are trained. On the other hand, torturing kids.
Shadows can go ahead.
Shadows take six trips to get them all.
After photographers are appeased, Shines take a couple critical cases and Earths start on everyone else.
Isel thinks Maurabel should write Biyan because it will be a diplomatic mess if it looks like Anitam had anything to do with this.
So she does! Some of her elemental friends went to investigate allegations of tortured children and were very alarmed by what they found and now the children are safe. They should probably send the rest of the reds after them so the elementals don't suspect them of doing horrible things to more reds.
The observing scary elementals are parked in red neighborhoods.