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.
He makes the case for that. Just the little mage and her parents who can't have more children anyway, not that much of a strain on Anitam. It takes a while and some favor-trading but eventually they can have visas.
Calado refuses to let them leave. The mage is a valuable national asset. And can only be swapped for another mage.
Is this the kind of refusal where if she waits an hour someone else will take charge and say otherwise?
He looks at the name. " - yeah, probably."
An hour later they are cleared to leave! Twenty minutes after that they are not and Aitim looks at the name again and thinks this one will stick.
Maurabel and her translator Ice go and apologize for the commotion and hope they will like it better in Anitam.
Assuming they are good parents, no. And the Lightning elemental friend she sent will be able to translate things for them till they have picked up the language and then kiddo can go to mage school in a year and a half.
Earth might be able to do it. Maurabel doesn't personally know enough about how sterilizations are done and she isn't sure any Earths do but it does not seem impossible in principle.
No problem.
She works on the air artifact. She winds up with a wind artifact that just moves around existing wind; her next try works. She can make those as often as she can assemble enough fresh Airs to help.
People are excited about concrete progress towards colonization things and buy them up eagerly. Anitam sends a bunch out to the planet they are slowly terraforming.
It's spring in the southern hemisphere. Everyone breathlessly waits to see whether nearly all the babies are mages.
It's not quite that good; eating enough clams increases the odds, but not to the point of guarantee. It's more like eighty percent.
Still! The first babies are only a couple weeks old but being obsessively observed for signs of magic. Someone thinks their baby magically started a fire but it turns out the baby just pulled on a tablecloth and knocked a candle over.
Everywhere already mandates really good fire protection measures, given the density fires could be disastrous. Even Calado mandates that. (Enforcement is maybe erratic, but.)
Then they will have varying fire suppression supplementation. Maurabel churns out airtifacts and works on curriculum. Does she get the early students thing?