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.
"It would make them that way. I don't think that's bad if they want it to happen, though, it would just be a weird thing to do to someone who's completely happy all wild."
"So going to meet ones who are not seeking us out seems unfair, but if they arrive and are curious explaining city rules is okay?"
"Yes. But they might be interested in only some flesh people things and want to look at bricks or pet dogs and not listen to you."
"Uh huh. Thank you. Will any of them come up with - wanting to hurt flesh people - if we don't horribly mistreat elementals like humans did?"
"That doesn't sound interesting for its own sake. Maybe Earths or Fires? Lightnings? I think most kinds wouldn't think that sounded fun."
"Just because we aren't flesh people doesn't mean we aren't people. I don't know why you'd have to think we weren't people to know we weren't going to coalesce wanting to live in cities and wear clothes."
"It's more that the Amentan concept of people includes 'is obliged to obey the laws' and 'needs permission to cross national borders' and so on."
"No one's trying to propose credits for elementals who coalesce. But the concept that the law applies to all people is harder to shake off."
"Maybe there could be an elemental country that is everywhere and says it is legal to act like a wild elemental."
"- I can see if that will make everyone feel more comfortable and if it does then we can arrange it. Thank you."
"Okay. Thank you."
How does everyone feel about some kind of international elemental governing authority that resolves problems with wild elementals, since they're not very suited to Amentans doing it.
They can't actually do much of anything about wild elementals, so the elemental buddy-system solution to violence or troublemaking improves on having nothing at all.
It does improve on nothing at all but are they sure they can't do anything about them? Even if they really have to?
Well, they don't advocate slavery, but whatever mechanism is used to accomplish it could probably be tweaked to just do imprisonment.