"The rainforest people will be okay in the rainforest, it's nice rainforest and they probably want a bit of a break from being around clean castes anyway."

"They're not dying but they're not thriving either, they don't know how to go live in the rainforest without help and all their help is from individual elementals and what I can get people to give them in case it will make me like them."

"Maybe they can swap with reds from elsewhere who want to go live in the rainforest."

"Are there those?"

"I expect there are some. Maybe not eighty-six thousand. People who aren't going to get children in their country, people who are unusually adventurous, people who cope unusually poorly with the degree of performative docility reds have to exhibit around clean castes..."

"I guess I can look into it. ...Am I going to be in trouble if I don't police the reds in my rainforest on the children thing?"

"They might come up with a way to do it internally, they know if they don't then eventually children are born with no resources to feed them."

"If they don't manage it?"

"People will probably scold you over it but I doubt they'll go to war."

Nod.

"It really is important to do population controls, but it might make more sense for them to do it than for you to try to."

"Yeah, just wanted to know if I would be in trouble over owning the land or whatever."

"No. If you were calling it a country you're ruling, then sure, but a bit of land of yours that you're letting reds settle on, no."

Nod.

"So, mage orphanage or no?"

"Once I have a place I'm satisfied to put them where they will not be pariahs or inculcated with anything stupid."

"Moon colony's the best I've got on that front."

"We'll see how the moon turns out. Which moon?"

He looks up moon land prices and picks a moon for her.

She coaxes some elementals to the moon. Airs and Waters can turn up their halos as high as they go.

This will gradually give the moon an atmosphere, but not season it.

"So do you know what causes season-ing, exactly?"

"It's not just length of the day, we tried that. We think it's a combination of angle of the light, length of the day, and temperature and pressure changes."

"Well, if light can do it Shines can do it. I guess I can ask if the reds mind being experimented on."

Reds don't mind. Shines fiddle with the light in the rainforest.

"I'm gonna need more elementals. I want to send the ones who aren't doing anything right now and are willing to go back to my world to spread rumors and tell us where to go, can you get the microphones -"

He can!!!