The students who are to arrive early start arriving.

And Maurabel is very cheery at them! Hi students!

They are so excited! And slightly intimidated! The place they are staying is nicer than they have seen, in some cases! Are they really going to all be learning in one classroom?

She might divide lessons up into two groups depending on how they handle lecture formats!

They have a varying command of Anitami; some lean on their elementals for translation. One of them heard that Anitam kills people a lot and is scared; another one thinks that's cool and wants to go watch.

"They don't kill kids, except for red kids." She asked.

Oh, then that's good.

Sigh. Anyway, those of them who found their own elementals, she wants to meet those!

They would be delighted to introduce their elementals!

Yay! And how are the elementals all doing?

Excited! Confused. Overwhelmed. One who overheard the executions conversation wants to know what's up with that.

Flesh people can die. Sometimes other flesh people would rather they did that instead of whatever they were doing while alive. If they do that in a coordinated and relatively predictable fashion it is called execution.

Uh. Yikes. (His attached kid wants to go watch can they go watch.)

She's not sure if Anitam does public executions and is not planning to look it up.

He'll ask his mom. A couple kids want their elementals to spar, will their elementals do that? It would be cool.

Elemental sparring can have a lot of collateral damage and they should do it high in the air, over the ocean, if and only if they want to.

Awwwww.

She does not want her school to explode.

These not-yet-two-year-olds do not really understand why that would be a big deal but okay.

If her school explodes she can't teach them magic.

Oh no! 

The kids have mostly clustered by caste. The yellows are sitting quietly and taking notes on things. The oranges are sitting quietly and whispering to each other. The greys are running around. The purples have additionally clustered by various other criteria. 

That's a little disappointing but Maurabel doesn't try to break it up.

Her teaching assistants suggest activities to help the kids get to know each other and practice their Anitami.

Good teaching assistants.

Kids can go to the zoo! (The greys and purples race around and climb on everything and beg for candy from the vendor carts; the yellows and oranges walk patiently and take pictures and ask questions, even a few of them who look longingly at their racing-around classmates.) 

Kids can go to the museum! (The greys and purples are bored.)

Kids can go to the amusement park! This gets all of them excitable and inclined to race around and plead for snacks.