Yay! And how are the elementals all doing?

Excited! Confused. Overwhelmed. One who overheard the executions conversation wants to know what's up with that.

Flesh people can die. Sometimes other flesh people would rather they did that instead of whatever they were doing while alive. If they do that in a coordinated and relatively predictable fashion it is called execution.

Uh. Yikes. (His attached kid wants to go watch can they go watch.)

She's not sure if Anitam does public executions and is not planning to look it up.

He'll ask his mom. A couple kids want their elementals to spar, will their elementals do that? It would be cool.

Elemental sparring can have a lot of collateral damage and they should do it high in the air, over the ocean, if and only if they want to.

Awwwww.

She does not want her school to explode.

These not-yet-two-year-olds do not really understand why that would be a big deal but okay.

If her school explodes she can't teach them magic.

Oh no! 

The kids have mostly clustered by caste. The yellows are sitting quietly and taking notes on things. The oranges are sitting quietly and whispering to each other. The greys are running around. The purples have additionally clustered by various other criteria. 

That's a little disappointing but Maurabel doesn't try to break it up.

Her teaching assistants suggest activities to help the kids get to know each other and practice their Anitami.

Good teaching assistants.

Kids can go to the zoo! (The greys and purples race around and climb on everything and beg for candy from the vendor carts; the yellows and oranges walk patiently and take pictures and ask questions, even a few of them who look longingly at their racing-around classmates.) 

Kids can go to the museum! (The greys and purples are bored.)

Kids can go to the amusement park! This gets all of them excitable and inclined to race around and plead for snacks.

Castes are weird. She can get them some snacks.

Grey kids get sticks and have swordfights! One of the orange kids shuts this down as irresponsible! One of the purple kids wants to know how to operate the cotton candy machine and gets a lesson from an amused vendor. Everyone goes on a roller coaster except a few kids who think that looks horrifying and no fun at all.

Those ones can skip it, that's fine.

Kids go to the movies! Kids go to the beach! Kids get pretty good with Anitami; many of them are translating for their parents.

Awww.

And eventually they are two and the blues and greens arrive and magic lessons can start!

(They sit ordered by caste; blue and green in the front and then yellow and then orange and then purple and grey).

Did the child-wranglers do that or did the kids self-sort?

Kids self-sorted.

Huh.

There are separate seats by a side door for two red students and an Adamant and an Adamant/Shadow who come in with them. In they come.