"Great, okay, so then if we have mages at all, before they grow up and become powerful we have everyone amend the anti-slavery treaty to include enforcement of rules against enslaving elementals. Everyone'll be in favor of that, no one wants magic destabilizing the political landscape. 

- if there are red mages we have a problem."

"Besides the one you already have, you mean."

"We have a new and much bigger problem."

"By themselves they aren't likely to do much."

"I actually think they'd mostly use it for - internal things. Making their lives less bad. Not things that'll get their country riled up. But it'll be riled up anyway, just at the fact they have the option - people might kill them before they're old enough to hide it -"

"Why does your planet suck."

"Because we can't get to any other ones."

"I can see how that will help with most of the problems you still have in spite of being unfathomably rich but I'm not actually sure it helps very much with that one except in the sense that cutting off a gangrenous limb and cauterizing the wound can. You know, you might have a problem earlier, if elementals keep popping. They will all know all your languages and they are immortal and powerful and can fly and they have not been raised to hate reds."

"If they ask the reds what they want the reds will probably not propose things that'll start a massacre."

"They're developmentally adults in the sense that all their future growth is experiential and not in fundamental capacity but they are brand new. They might not think to ask."

"If they decide to intervene in things without asking whether this is what anyone involved wants then there'll be problems that have nothing to do with reds. They could - stage prison breaks or rescue murderers from execution or show up invisibly in secure facilities and make it unclear whether they're spying on behalf of a distrusted neighbor -"

"They're more likely to stay out of populated areas if they can, that's what elementals like is wilderness, but you don't have all that much of it."

"We don't. Maybe they'll frequently be interested in helping with colony projects just for the wilderness."

"Maybe. Do you know what kinds?"

"Ice, Shine, Glass, Stone, Lightning/Fire hybrid, Air, Water, Adamant," he recites.

"Huh, I never heard of a lightning/fire hybrid, wonder what it'll call itself."

"Did Penumbra decide she'd be called that? If she's the only one?"

"Part of popping with the languages, they know what kinds they are."

"So the Lightning/Fire probably already knows?"

"Yeah. Are people talking to them?"

"Yeah. Don't know if anyone spoke to that one, though, I am not an elemental and don't speak a word of Lasane."

"...they're elementals. They will speak every language spoken in the world at the time they appeared. I'm not sure if they will know mine, because there's just me and a few of you and some of the stolen elementals who speak it here and I don't know how many speakers they need, but they're going to all know Anitami."

"Yes, I know, but the people who that one appeared near spoke Lasane and wrote excited blog posts in Lasane of which I have only a horrendous machine translation."

"Ah, okay."

"None of the elementals have yet shown much interest in starting a blog."