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.
Maurabel pats her and goes to make the announcement that Amentans are throwing mages, she will be trying to found a school in time to teach them, and she will be deeply annoyed with anyone who murders magical baby reds they can just send them to her rainforest.
There can't be magic reds. If that annoys her, too bad. And everyone agrees on it so at least no one'll have an edge.
Maurabel is deeply annoyed. (In the future they can figure out what the dietary thing is and just make sure reds don't have it. In the meantime... well. This world is very big and they already kill babies for other reasons. ...Is she legally allowed to have some in her rainforest if they manage to get there somehow?)
"Depends how hard you usually look at baby reds and whether they have obvious manifestations. If there's a kid who can only do wood and adamant and glass and stone they could just avoid having them around those things."
"Even if I set it up so the reds were on the other side of the room, with a divider, didn't share dormitories - just listened to the same lectures -"
"If no one else has to touch anything reds touched then I bet they'll go. Separately, someone might get nervous about reds knowing magic and try to kill them."
"They will try with plausible deniability about any government being responsible for it. Adamant bodyguards might suffice."
Isel informs Anitami reds that reds everywhere should know that the aliens will take their mage kids.
What about parents? And how would they get there? .......not that there are any, reds have notoriously poor diets.