"Imposing them does not sound good, no. Are there differences in jobs humans tend to do and jobs elementals tend to do?"

"Yeah. There are a lot more humans, and all elementals are magic but some humans aren't or aren't very."

"And elementals live forever, I would expect that to change what interests them and what they like."

"It does."

"One might worry about getting a - caste system by species, but maybe you can avoid that."

"It is kinda happening already. Although human mages can do things elementals can't."

"Every caste on Amenta can do things the others can't. That can be - insurance against one group of people deciding they don't need the others, but not against mistreating them necessarily."

"I mean, literally magically can't, not, isn't good at it."

"What things can only human mages do?"

"Almost anything to do with making an object stay magic needs three or more kinds. If there's ever such a thing as a three-element elemental we don't know about them."

"But human mages can use many kinds at once?"

"If we have them - some mages are weaker or have fewer specialties - but most of us who are doing magic as opposed to something else have multiple affinities, yeah. There's only two elements I can't do on my own at all."

"What decides which someone's specialties will be?"

"Dunno."

"I suppose lots more will be known about magic eventually."

"Yep."

"What can we do for you and Penumbra today?"

"I might go flying invisible again today," Penumbra says.

"Do you think I have enough Anitami to be understood by the very excited other countries' people?"

"Afen would know better than me -"

"She's picking it up very fast! Probably? Possibly I could stay around to offer words at need."

"I don't want them to think I'm picking favorites. We could've landed on them too."

"I agree! Random is not a good way to pick who to meet. You will have to pick somehow, though, there are two hundred countries and they all sent delegates as soon as we said yes of course you can talk to the aliens."

"Oh boy. Uh."

"We can advise but that maybe misses the point."

"I don't know that I can improve on random..."