We're working on that. The magic'll probably help you there.

Probably, yeah.

Anyway, tell me more about the group that'll die if people can do without them.

Do you have a caste system? We have a caste system. Blues run things, greens invent things, yellows do technical and detail-intensive work, greys do sports and police and stuff, oranges do teaching and medicine and stuff, purples do retail and farming and stuff. Reds do sewage and garbage and the dead.

Ew, a caste system? Nobody does that anymore.

Sounds nice.

Enh, we have our own problems. So the reds are your untouchables?

Yeah. What happened to yours when you stopped having caste systems.

Oh, this wasn't my culture, this was India. And Japan, I think, and some other places...anyway, I'm not sure, exactly, but I'm pretty sure their descendants are still around.

Here they'll kill them.

Nope.

What kind of magic have you got?

I can read minds, communicate past any language barrier, kill someone without leaving any mark whatsoever on their body, make myself and others undetectable, project emotions empathically at various levels of gentleness or--not, and defend minds against other mind magic. My sister can manipulate metal telekinetically, make it behave like a fluid, kill all electronics within a wide radius, energize people, and throw nigh-arbitrary amounts of lightning. We can both heal, fly, and blow massive holes through a solid foot of steel. We can also temporarily fuse into a single composite individual who's even stronger.

And my daughter can give more people magic, although they won't start out this strong.

He sits down.

There's a country called Biyan.

Go on.

They didn't issue any red credits, a month ago. Planning to phase them out. The last place to phase them out killed them all. The reds panicked. Rioted, burned down a whole blue district, refused to teach their replacements how to do their jobs. Biyan took all their kids hostage. They're - letting them check up on the kids in exchange for training their replacements. 

Shit.

So. Once the government's here they'll explain why it'd be stupid to do anything and - it kind of would be - but -

But I am the granddaughter of fucking Holocaust survivors and I will. Not. Tolerate. This.

There's nowhere for them to go. Even if you grabbed them.

Okay, then I will fix that too.

I know. I'm just giving you a list of - things we've got to fix.

- he texts Aitim and his father to never mind.

--Yeah. Thanks, I appreciate it. I just--aaaauugh.

Uh huh. Nowhere in the world takes immigrants - any kind, not just red.

Yeah. Okay, so we'll have to make somewhere for people to go.

Biyan's not done training them, if we grab them all they'll have no one to do their plumbing and undertaking and they'll probably collapse.