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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
Things have in fact gotten better since word got around that the aliens cared! It'd be bad if there were any red mages but since there aren't.
Why would it be bad if there were red mages exactly, would it be more than just them being executed?
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The red auditors take diligent notes and spend all of their visit in red districts and then go home and report to Maurabel. Maurabel gives the country in question a dozen air artifacts and offers to introduce the Shadow who likes bedtime stories to whoever is on their interplanetary exploration team; she will consider them for field trips and possible satellite campus.
This place has really low extrajudicial violence against reds! When they get in trouble for things they usually just get house arrest.
Also they don't have social workers. Because they have anthropologists who experiment on the reds. They've learned a lot from it!
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That's... different. That's definitely different. She is not sure she'll give them "not shitty".
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How are they responsibly incentivizing good behavior? What do their reds want from the government?
Their reds would like more experiments that don't cripple them or kill them. They are incentivizing good behavior because their reds can safely report crimes and problems and so on.
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They can have some air artifacts for, like, at least managing to not be terrible in the same way as everyone else.
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Okay look she is an alien and she's not impressed with "they're reds" as an explanation for segregation, let alone beating them up (common) or blinding some to see what they do (this one place, points for originality).
But it helped them improve their understanding of blindness, which helped them treat other blind people more effectively.
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And she's glad they're not doing it just for kicks, and they can have some air artifacts.