Imprisoning them somewhere with fresh air and decent work, with a chance of freedom eventually, probably with opportunities to make more trouble for Sythyry by her known covert skills, and regular chances to see their kids and poison them against Sythyry while teaching them how to be felons themselves. It's not really even fair to the kids, who get to go on "learning" from the cold-hearted thieves instead of getting a new and more worthwhile family.
I'm not sure I understand. Without air, they would die; if I wished to kill them, I would simply kill them. The kids will have as worthwhile a family as we can scare up. And if I can't protect myself from a penniless ex-accountant, I'm not much of a wizard, am I?
Certain processes in our world, while allowing for some truly impressive feats of population density in engineering, also tend to slightly befoul the air wherever there are so many people. The more people, the less "slightly" that air is befouled. The sewage is about the nicest part of it.
Point being: "Fresh air" is as opposed to "stale air", not "no air". Life in the country is often held as a good thing, here. Or at least a thing many people wish they could afford the time for.
Ah! The country village in question is below-decks on the great skybridge. It will be dark, dank, and smell very much of farming and fertilizer and rot, I should think -- though the Herethroy who live there too will make it pleasant enough for themselves, I imagine, so it is not an utter pit of hell. Still, Herethroy generally find farming smells comforting, and mammals (and lizards!) probably find them overly rustic.
Ah, but it's countryfolk who like rustic smells and cityfolk who like urban smells. I'm a mammal; to me, rustic smells are agreeable and urban smells are repulsive. Since your miscreants are cityfolk based on your descriptions of them, the locale will probably be perceived as punishment.
About the family part, with the frequent visits: The kids will still have plenty of chances to have their loyalties divided, to be constantly reminded of how the "evil wizard" imprisoned their parents, and to get exploited by the people who were ready to use them as meatshields. Rather than a clean break of sending the kids to a foster family, this method is like peeling a bandage off slowly, except that it not only causes extended pain but keeps the kids around dangerous, unscrupulous people.
Well, the kids are going to see their mothers going forward, it's true - but they're going to be dwelling with people who are, hopefully, more morally upstanding and responsible than those two.
Without being granted a position of trust, Zascalle is not likely to have enough resources to cause any trouble - she's not going to be put in charge of anyone's accounts again anytime soon, that's for certain. She has been stripped of her capital, and with it, her power. She is being put in the care of people who will distrust her not only for her deeds, but because she is foreign. I really don't think she's likely to cause any more trouble without considerable help - and the kids will have positive role models as well.
No, I'm afraid it's still an issue. They are going to be fostered where they can visit their parents frequently. The connection between them and their foreign-criminal parents is going to be quite clear, and probably going to be a stigma against them. And there's nothing Sythyry can really do about that. :/
Well, I could keep them away from their parents altogether.
I'm doing what I can. (And by "I" I mean "Saza".) The parents will live in one village; the children in a somewhat distant one. The children's friends won't see the foreign-criminal parents, at least.
To clarify what I was talking about: I read terrycloth's comment as suggesting that that was the only life they would know. Since they are going to be carefully fostered, not just tossed into a faceless and soulless bureaucracy to do it, they are going to be matched with foster parents who will not treat them thus, and so their home life, at least, will not be rife with ceaseless prejudice.
Both of you have a point. We will choose parents carefully -- but we have only so many choices. We should put them with someone with some connection to Saza, and we cannot put them in the city. The choices will be in Oorah Thrassen, and the children clearly come from Vheshrame, so they will be foreigners from a long-hostile nation. Probably the nature of their parents and the story of their fostering will be well-known, and it is not wholly flattering. Feralan, for some while (hopefully no more than that!), will be obviously alien.
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Point being: "Fresh air" is as opposed to "stale air", not "no air". Life in the country is often held as a good thing, here. Or at least a thing many people wish they could afford the time for.
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Indeed, I hope they complain about it at length to the Herethroy, and thereby make enemies of them rather than friends.
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Without being granted a position of trust, Zascalle is not likely to have enough resources to cause any trouble - she's not going to be put in charge of anyone's accounts again anytime soon, that's for certain. She has been stripped of her capital, and with it, her power. She is being put in the care of people who will distrust her not only for her deeds, but because she is foreign. I really don't think she's likely to cause any more trouble without considerable help - and the kids will have positive role models as well.
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I'm doing what I can. (And by "I" I mean "Saza".) The parents will live in one village; the children in a somewhat distant one. The children's friends won't see the foreign-criminal parents, at least.
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But we will do what we can do.