...how long until the state of magic is expected to advance?

There's a lot of people here and they know more about medicine than humans do but her world's been studying magic intensively with a lot of collaboration for about six local years and still (she checked, she gets a news bulletin every time she goes to clear more purchased elementals and would have heard) hasn't improved on what Maurabel learned in school.

All relevant relatives want their loved ones unstasised.

She and Ice go through them and warm them all back up.

She loses one.

His little sister is very sad. His family would like the Ice to get in trouble. 

Do they even know where the offending Ice is now? Anyway, the policy is for someone better socialized to go introduce the Ice to concepts like "just fly away if you meet drunk four year olds who have welding torches for some reason".

That's not good enough; the Ice should be in jail. (They don't know where it is.) She has an Ice with her, maybe it's that one.

Her Ice translator has been accounted for in Anitam at the time of the incident and they are going to leave now. They Shadow-walk home.

People are very angry that an Ice murdered a random innocent person!

Attacking somebody with welding torches is not innocent. She is sorry he's dead too but let's be clear.

The elemental was not in fear for its safety and could easily have left, it's nothing like attacking an Amentan or human.

Elementals are immortal but that doesn't mean you can't hold one down and torture it. Is there by any chance a security camera at the rink?

There is! 

And could the Ice have left without fighting back?

Probably. They had an argument and then someone punched the Ice and hurt her hand and then someone pulled out a welding torch and buzzed him with it and then he reacted dramatically and some of the other ones got welding torches too. 

Well. Maybe they'll find the Ice and maybe they won't. At any rate she advises not attacking elementals.

Uh huh.

The free(ish) elementals on her home world find some more high-profile targets. They take all their elementals.

Amentans continue to derive satisfaction from hearing about elementals freed from slavery. Aitim arranges for the stories to get lots of publicity so people have a harder time getting their own ideas about slavery.

"Thanks."

"Of course!" He's having a kid this spring; the mother is eating lots of clams even though it's still winter. "How's preparing your curriculum going?"

"Pretty good. Might all fall apart when I have students, though. I'm probably going to want to hire some oranges for kid-wrangling parts that aren't directly about magic."

"With that many students? Yeah, I bet."

"I'm slightly worried about whether I will be able to find local oranges who can handle red students fairly. Or, uh, handle blue students fairly."

"There are oranges who teach in blue schools and they are not intimidateable into not giving us homework or anything."