...it's probably green. That would make the most sense.

A lot of its uses among humans are kinda purple or orange.

Maybe spell development is green and spell stuff is purple or orange.

Anyway she'd appreciate if they'd let some other little mages come play with their daughter and her elemental friends.

Anybody who would like to fly their children and their children's staff out to this country estate in Cene is welcome.

She finds a few dozen elementals and they help her find more and eventually all the kids have at least one.

Statisticians think maybe it is something in freshwater clams. The population of the southern hemisphere, where spring is approaching, promptly starts eating tons of freshwater clams. Several governments pass laws that only pregnant people can buy freshwater clams. Charities spring up to help pregnant poor people afford freshwater clams. Everyone everywhere prohibits reds from possessing, ordering or eating any freshwater clams.

If the reds in her rainforest want them Maurabel is not going to ask them not to ask Waters to bring them some.

An amendment to international treaties about reds is added obliging everyone to take steps to reduce the risk of red mages, including denying them clams and killing them if you learn about them. There is some vague interest in action against the rainforest rogue reds but nothing concrete yet.

Well, does the international community want the only trained mage on the planet to be working on a school, or do they want her trying to defend her rainforest?

They want to be safe from red mages teleporting all around touching things.

Mages. Cannot. Teleport. Only elementals can do that and they can take non-mage passengers too if they want.

Yeah and they're scared of that too!!

But it absolutely cannot be addressed by killing mages.

And they are miserable about that.

Too bad.

They are so glad they'll have other mages soon.

She works on a curriculum. Gets reports from the little mages' elemental friends.

The little mages are all loved very much (except for this one, whose mother is an alcoholic and whose father is depressed; neither of them play with him and there's only sometimes food. Grandma's pursuing a custody case.) They are being taught Anitami as best their caretakers can manage it, which in some case is regular tutors and in some cases watching Anitami children's television shows. In some countries they are protected national assets with security teams assigned; some countries are ignoring them.

In Calado someone's private security shows up to take a purple mage baby away for a better upbringing. Then more security shows up to argue with the original security, and the baby's mother flees with the baby in the ensuing chaos. She is arrested for disobeying security directives and sterilized on arrest because the private prison in that district has a contract with a hospital that does sterilizations. She is released without charges but billed for the arrest and the sterilization; she can't afford it and is arrested again for unpaid fines.

The first little mage's Fire friend, with some Maurabel coaching, sells youth boosts and buys the little mage food and brings him to playgrounds and talks to him in Anitami.

The second little mage's Lightning friend can't figure out how to get a valid Calador work permit, can Maurabel just pay her fines off miscellaneous bribe money she has sloshing around and import the family to Anitam by any chance?

"It's hard to get anyone willing to swap to Calado because, uh. Calado."

"Yes, it certainly seems that Calado, can I get an exception - I won't need it when there's mages everywhere because everyone's eating clams and nobody will be taking such an exceptional interest in them but this is one of a hundred and sixteen."

"Some people might be bribeable to swap? Purples don't emigrate much at all but probably for enough money. There just isn't any such thing as non-swap immigration, the strings to pull aren't there at all."

"I'm going to be able to have the students at my school at all, right?"

"Yeah, study-abroad there are applicable strings for. They won't be Anitami citizens, they're just studying here."