"Will the experiment work with people from multiple countries of origin?"

"It'd be harder but not impossible."

"It'll need Airs for a while longer to have a comfortable amount everywhere. I don't want to look more than strategically favoritist."

"Then I'd give it to Cene, we've got the arcology on a candidate planet and helping Cene is more obviously tit-for-tat while helping us could be read as 'we have a monopoly on your time and attention'."

"Cene it is."

Cene gets a moon. It is currently sort of like being really really high altitude everywhere on it but it is indefinitely survivable.

Cene is thrilled! Other people keep asking if Maurabel wants things.

Someone is pretty sure her late-spring baby is. Uh. Doing magic.

...Maurabel can come check.

Baby is four months old and her mobile is glowing. "It's more obvious if you turn off the light," says her father, and does. "They're not glow-in-the-dark toys."

"Well. Guess I'd better found a magic school or something."

"She is magic?"

"Yeah. Congratulations."

"What will she be able to do -"

"Might she hurt herself -"

"I can't tell what-all her affinities are except that she has some Shine, but it's like learning to walk - she might hurt herself a tiny bit but then she'll learn not to do whatever hurt. If she has any Fire that's the only one that could be really dangerous and even then it'd be fairly unlikely."

"We can get hardwood instead of carpet -"

Nod.

"And in a - couple - years I can teach her how to do more interesting stuff."

Proud parents beam at their daughter.

Their daughter chews on her hand.

Maurabel pats her and goes to make the announcement that Amentans are throwing mages, she will be trying to found a school in time to teach them, and she will be deeply annoyed with anyone who murders magical baby reds they can just send them to her rainforest.

Uh, no.

Well, they can incur her deep annoyance if they like.

There can't be magic reds. If that annoys her, too bad. And everyone agrees on it so at least no one'll have an edge.

Maurabel is deeply annoyed. (In the future they can figure out what the dietary thing is and just make sure reds don't have it. In the meantime... well. This world is very big and they already kill babies for other reasons. ...Is she legally allowed to have some in her rainforest if they manage to get there somehow?)

"People probably won't go shoot them."

"Oh good. Might annoy the elementals."

"Yep. How likely are we to even find out if a red child has magic -"

"Depends how hard you usually look at baby reds and whether they have obvious manifestations. If there's a kid who can only do wood and adamant and glass and stone they could just avoid having them around those things."