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.
Cute.
She hires someone to do first-pass interviews of orange child-wranglers to get it to a manageable number. They need to be able to work with elementals and with Maurabel and in the same room as reds.
This one teaches green kids and finds elementals really fascinating and is so upset about people mistreating them. This one runs grey after-school programs and has opinions about letting young children be young children and have play-focused learning. This one teaches orange kids and has a elemental friend who lives in her apartment's rooftop gardens.
Cool. And they can handle the possibility of red students? Big world. Possible some managed to hide.
She is going to be set up to avoid the necessity but if something happened, two-year-olds being two-year-olds, they would have to cope and not lash out at the kids.
She narrows it down by how much she and her more closely cooperating elementals get along with them, with a view toward diversity of previous castes of students.
She thinks she will pay them all at the higher rates. The lower the typical teacher pay the more of the caste there will be running around to wrangle, after all. And she'd like them to really want to keep their jobs.
...she is going to pay her child-wranglers the same amount. They can get bonuses if she likes their performance.