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"I think you had better not tell anyone other than the people who already know I am not dead." 

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"I probably can't, Leareth did magic to us about it. I can tell them, and pass along a message if you'd like."

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"Huh. Clever of him. You can pass along a message saying I am all right and have a body, and I can see them at some point once I am - used to things, and have a name and cover story. How are things going for us on Earth, by the way? I will read all my logs but I am not sure I got everything." 

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"There's a lot of human interest in having Yeerks. The Andalites insist that they all go with a compulsion so the human can take over, which puts the Yeerk in a pretty vulnerable situation, we're negotiating for some kind of more complicated compulsion that lets the Yeerk hold on if there's a threat to their safety. We got the go-ahead for most of the plans for bringing Earth up to a modern tech level that we had in store for once we'd conquered it. People were - upset about you being murdered, but not very surprised."

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"That makes sense." Sigh. "I think - things will be all right. In the long run." 

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"I hope so."

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"I would like to get back to doing math with Cayaldwin. But - thank you for coming. And good luck, with everything." 

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"Thank you. And - good luck to you too."

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He nods to her, and heads back to the room with Cayaldwin and Leareth, makes brief eye contact with Cayaldwin and starts morphing Yeerk again. 

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"Would you like a Gate back to your base?" Leareth asks Mhalir's lieutenant. 

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"Yes, please."

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He can do a Gate for her, again from the other room. 

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And now Mhalir is morphed Yeerk and ready to be scooped up by Cayaldwin? 

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Yes. Cayaldwin is still mostly not tracking everything but now they can get to the research.

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It's not fun, exactly, being in his head. It's impossible to know if this is what it was like for the other past-future-Mhalir, back when Cayaldwin was a little less miserable.

But math is still math and it's still interesting and he's delighted to work on research with Cayaldwin. It feels like he can finally properly get up to speed, now that he can see the planar modeling program through Cayaldwin's eyes and read his thoughts and communicate effortlessly. 

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Leareth morphs Andalite again as soon as the human host is Gated back, and works by himself nearby, watching them, trying to gauge if Cayaldwin's body language is any less tense and miserable. Probably it's too much to ask for big improvements this quickly.  

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He does not super seem better this quickly.

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It's been a very very long day and Leareth did the magic-intensive z-space work for this endeavour twice today, and he's tired even if Cayaldwin and Mhaliar aren't. 

He heads out in search of Matirin, moving more slowly than usual. 

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Matirin is grazing and acting like he's not watching them. <How'd it go.>

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<As smoothly as I could have asked for, I think? He calmed down after being in both of our heads.> Tail-wave. <...I just wish it that fixing this fixed more things.> 

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<I think it kind of does! He and Cayaldwin will be able to finish their morph research!>

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<That is true. Maybe it is just that I am very tired, and it should feel more - triumphant, than I can muster right now.> 

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Lean. <We figured out how to bring back the dead. Are there any of your people who are old or terminally ill ->

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<No one terminally ill, some are old. ...The King of Valdemar is ill. We should scan him and also - I am not sure if the Andalites would be willing to treat him, it might be curable without morph but with other tech, I am not sure why Vanyel did not ask yet. Maybe because we were not previously offering your tech to treat sick humans on Earth.> 

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<We still aren't quite there. I think we'll get there. The problem... is that the known technique for scanning people gives you brain cancer. Maybe Healing could help with that somehow but I don't know how.>

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