"It's sure as hell distracting," says Trouble, beginning to morph. "Not that much harder, though..."

Bella watches his arm as he changes. "Note when during the morph it stops hurting, and if there are intermediate stages."

"Still hurts," he observes, although in fact the morph has yet to touch his damaged arm; it's going for the hair first, and Robin's brilliant green eyes. Then he shrinks, all of the barely-an-inch height difference, and his face begins to shift...

Bella writes this down, checks her timer, writes that down. "Takes longer than me morphing Andi. Seems relatively proportional to how big the changes you're making are."

<And I can thought-speak now,> he (or she) says cheerfully.

"...Ooh. Me and Andi did not come across that particular feature morphing each other, although we can do it when we're butterflies - how do you do it?"

"I - just do?" he says, in Trouble's accent from Robin's mouth. "It's not any different than doing it as an Andalite."

"Huh." Bella turns into Andi -

"Tes"<ting?>

<You got it!>

<Wow, we might have to spend a lot of time morphed as each other just to get this advantage.>

She morphs back. She writes.

"Mm, pass," he says.

And shows no sign of injury to that arm. He checks.

"It could be different, injuries to morphs versus injuries to baseline shapes," Bella says, "is there some reason we can't do that experiment?"

"We can if you wanna hold the hammer," says Trouble. "Ethan doesn't feel like fucking up his best friend even when she's actually me."

"I'll think about it. You were faster demoprhing than morphing, any idea why?"

"'Cause I wasn't trying to figure out when the pain stopped, I think."

"Okay, can we repeat that or something effectively similar without the confounding factor in case the injury all by itself is affecting your speed?"

"Sure," he says, holding his other arm out to Ethan.

Who cheerfully breaks it.

This time the morph is much faster. A little slower than coming back from Robin the first time, maybe, but not as obviously so.