They appear in midair, visible out of a few thirtieth-floor apartments.
One starts to fall. The other catches her by the arm, flings out - wing-shapes of light - and slows her, spiraling down until they're at street level.
"Even if I set it up so the reds were on the other side of the room, with a divider, didn't share dormitories - just listened to the same lectures -"
"If no one else has to touch anything reds touched then I bet they'll go. Separately, someone might get nervous about reds knowing magic and try to kill them."
"They will try with plausible deniability about any government being responsible for it. Adamant bodyguards might suffice."
Isel informs Anitami reds that reds everywhere should know that the aliens will take their mage kids.
Course there aren't. The aliens can teleport, like how they got Biyan's children out, but 'tell us where to find your mage child' is obviously sketchy so Isel's not sure how they could get there.
Sigh. Here is the alien's contact info anyway. They could try just asking for teleport healing or something.
Maurabel and an Ice who is working as a translator for her these days say that if there were any, it's pretty cheap for Shadows to look at dark places, so they could designate a dark place for Shadows to check for messages sometimes, if there were any messages, which of course there are not.
"Works if they just don't trust me, doesn't help if they don't trust you. If you get a couple word'll spread, though."
"I suggested they could write to ask for healing because that they might do for someone who's going to die anyway. And then if you heal a couple there's more trust."
"I do worry about them, I haven't been able to funnel them as much as they're used to having, however it compares with my world."