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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.
maurabel and penumbra go on an adventure
"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.
Maybe they can figure something out if there are elementals who do something problematic enough to be worth importing mages to arrest them and keeping them until a mage dying of old age can release them.
On the human world there were no recorded incidents of elementals making trouble before the slavery started. It seems silly to prepare too exhaustively for something that may never happen, thereby alienating the people who are doing interplanetary travel and terraforming for them.
They're really touchy about the slavery thing and will be equally touchy about proposed modifications, plus worried that once anyone has an elemental imprisoned they'll be tempted to enslave it.
Yep! Working out plans to imprison people who are currently less than a season old is probably not the way to do it. Maybe they could come up with safeguards to make sure the imprisonment can't be exploited?
That varies a lot country-to-country. He would know; Anitam is on the unusually execution-happy side.
"They could keep track of capital crimes, I'm sure."
"But what caste would we try them as, what caste are they -"
"They're aliens, they've got the element categories, they're not a caste - this is why we should have a single oversight board with laws consistent everywhere -"