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<Yeerks also do not like being alone. I expect he disprefers it; I particularly would predict that he hates feeling helpless and unable to affect the world except via communicating with us. I told him I would wait here for him to come up with further questions, though.> 

He hesitates. <...I have not said anything yet about us being the same person. I do not really know where to start. The only reason he concluded it, before, is that he was a Yeerk in my head.> 

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<It does sound really implausible and it is not even like we can explain how it happened.>

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<I know, right.> Sigh. <...Matirin, can you come here? I - probably someone should be keeping an eye on Cayaldwin - but I want you here.> 

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<I do not think Cayaldwin can invent the Gate-technique to reach the homeworld from here in an hour.>

 

He trots over. Cayaldwin's workstation is even more shielded, now.

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[I want to know more about Velgarth] Mhalir sends through the interface, disembodied words on a screen. [And the conditions under which you ended up allied with the Andalites.]

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[Matirin is here now] Leareth answers. [He was in command then, although the Andalite commander on Earth now is Nerefir. Maybe he can explain that aspect] He glances over at Matirin to see if he wants to do that. 

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<Aren't you more suited to explain Velgarth?> But maybe the mention of magic will be confusing; Matirin is certainly more accustomed to discussing Velgarth in terms that make it make sense to people who haven't heard of it.

[In March of 1995 the Andalite Dome ship TailStrike was damaged in fighting outside Tantarill-XI and jumped, blind, aiming for Earth, where the plan was to lose an engagement in space with Yeerk forces there and sneak some operatives to the ground while the engagement was ongoing. Instead we arrived in Velgarth. It took us some time to determine this because the ship was badly damaged and Velgarth, somehow, also has humans. The local humans had not invented electricity yet but have genetic energy-manipulation and planar-manipulation abilities they call magic, and can detect people in morph easily; they identified us and, after we explained our mission, agreed to help us with the war.]

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Mhalir relays this to his file, and plays it back for himself a second and third time, after acknowledging that he heard it. 

[Magic] he says finally. [That is very surprising. I would like to hear more.]

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Leareth is better placed to explain this part, and he steps in and starts going through a quick explanation of Velgarth's Gifts, and how they were adapted for the war on Earth. 

[If I can figure out how to upload text documents to your files, there is a great deal already written] he adds. [Since the humans of Earth were also learning about this, starting with minimal context.] He's not sure he can figure out how to do that without Cayaldwin, though. 

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[I would also like to read reports from the human news after the Yeerk surrender] Mhalir says. [And communications between my people, if you can obtain those.] Both as general context, to catch up more efficiently, and also because those would be at least costly to fake. 

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He goes to get Cayaldwin. <Is there a way to upload documents for Mhalir to read?>

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<What? Yes, that's trivial.>

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<Well, I don't know anything about your setup there and I don't want to poke it lest I turn him off or something.>

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<Fine, I'll show you.> He stalks back in and does that; it is in fact very straightforward to queue text files to be read to Mhalir. 

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<You did very well.>

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<He's alive.>

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<We should have - for Father ->

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<Oh. Yes. We should have. Maybe you can scan everybody now, explain that you think with the morph-tether setup you'll be able to get them new bodies in a couple of years ->

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<It's too late, it doesn't matter now.>

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Matirin starts to say something but Cayaldwin has left again. He turns to look at Leareth instead, tail-shrugs.

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Leareth gets to work on obtaining various documents and lining them up for Mhalir. His own notes are easy to access; they're not really intended for someone else to read, but Mhalir thinks enough like him that he might be able to make sense of it, Leareth will queue those up after the news releases and the communications between the Yeerks and the Andalites that he has saved. 

It's repetitive work. <I never know what to say to Cayaldwin when he is in - this mood> he says to Matirin as he adds another document. <And - I do not know what to say to Mhalir about his state of mind. Mhalir asked if he was all right.> Pause. <Mhalir told him not to kill Alloran, immediately. He seemed surprised, but - I am not sure it will in fact make any difference.> 

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<It seems like if anyone were entitled to release him from that promise it would be Mhalir.> Swish swish. <I don't know what to say either, though.>

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<I think Mhalir will be genuinely very upset if Alloran is murdered. And he will be devastated if he cannot not finish the morph project - and cannot obtain a new body to control via morph tether - because Cayaldwin is arrested for murder. I do not want that to happen to him, at all.> 

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<Possibly they should talk more about it. Which means we should give Mhalir as much context as we can on it so he can try to say something helpful.>

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