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.
She asks Aitim what nice, easy to understand, concrete terms for "you know, NOT SHITTY" might look like.
"Rates of extrajudicial violence comparable to those experienced in communities with a comparable crime rate, adequate prenatal nutrition and access to the resources to train their own doctors and provide their own medical care, reflected in childbirth and infant mortality rates comparable to impoverished clean people, enforcement of contract law so that people have to pay them for their work, answers to the questions 'what do our reds want from their government' and 'how are we responsibly incentivizing good behavior among our reds'."
"Any country which doesn't have a record of all police complaints and what resulted from them isn't going to impress you otherwise. Most places do. The crimes will include stuff like 'making noise' and 'touching things', of course."
Maurabel publishes this list. She's not making any promises - after all, it is possible that multiple countries would suddenly do all these things at once, and there is only one of her! - but they would be So Impressive and would definitely at least get you lots of Shadow-finding help and free air artifacts even if she cannot put her school in you.
But this is red-themed auditing, doesn't that make it red? Reds do things having to do with reds.
The job could involve traveling to the audited countries' red districts and seeing how they are!
Shadows. And it's not like a financial audit, it's just checking on red conditions. She doesn't think yellows will get good results.
Shadows can see where they're going. Red neighborhoods are the ones with reds in them. She will be doing the suggesting.
One country says they'll permit a red auditor if the red auditor wears an ankle bracelet monitor.
She can probably find one who's fine with that! All right who wants to go check out red conditions in that country while wearing an ankle thingy.