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.
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.
Yeah. Shines can turn invisible but they can't travel like Shadows. Penumbra is very special.
Well, if they want to travel to Biyan by airplane Isel can go visit Biyan with them. It's supposed to have good seafood.
And the Shine (...Elementals mostly don't have or want names, they are just their kinds) goes and hides and follows children and then comes back and cries.
"Some of the Shadows might want to move them. Then we could get them healing - elemental or just regular -"
"I'm sorry. I wish we could rescue you all into a world that doesn't have anything horrible."
The Shine goes and tracks all the remaining repositories of red children and tells the Shadows where they are.
"Biyan's going to drown in garbage, lots of people are going to die. I'm not saying we should try to deter them from rescuing tortured children. Just."
"The reds aren't going to keep working once the kids are free. They'll probably flee, Biyan'll probably kill them, Biyan won't be able to handle its pollution and everyone'll stop trade with them, someone'll overthrow the government internally or a neighbor'll conquer them -"
"There ought to be some way to magically purify things. I mean, water, I can do water, so can Waters, but I mean something that will let people do stuff without freaking out."
"I don't think I understand the - thing that magic can do - well enough to guess. Can it vanish garbage or something -"