He adds the hair, in case it is important.

Cam downs it.

And he shrinks and hastily adds a copy of Miranda's robes to his suddenly overlarge pants. "This is weird."

" - yes, yes it is. - means you can check your Occlumency with Veritaserum, though -"

"Only if -" Miranda's robes do not survive the reverse transition - "it doesn't wear off too fast." He shakes a shred of robe off his wing.

Giggle. "True. Would it have worn off that fast if you hadn't been meaning it to -"

"Unclear. The drugs-don't-work-unless-we-want-them-to and the healing are different and it's possible that the potion worked in spite of my objection but then I 'healed'."

"Your magic system is fascinating."

"I know, right? If you're not low on potions it might make sense to try something I would definitely not 'heal from'."

"Sure, what qualifies? Sleep seemed to work fine, but you were letting it - would you heal from growing gills and being able to breathe underwater -"

"Anything that has effects on my shape might count. If I don't think of something as part of my body it doesn't stick around long. Sleep wouldn't be healed-from, though, if they otherwise all do that I can just maybe sleep for a while."

"It's popular and the things that don't affect your shape typically affect your head."

"Of course they do. Sleep potion it is, I guess."

"Sure. Doesn't need to be right now, though. - I can check how Polyjuice plays with Elves while we have some on hand -"

"Do it in the infirmary, just in case."

"Okay. Have we met the people in the infirmary -"

"Came in with the security guy, same general principle where Milliways lets him cheat the thing his magic costs to do. Unless there's been a shift change since."

Infirmary-wards!

There is a dude in there! He is wearing white-sashed grey robes and a circlet with a white stone hanging over his forehead. "Hello."

"Hi! I'm doing something that is almost certainly perfectly safe but I wanted to do it here just in case, is that all right? I'm Timothy."

"That's fine. I'm Tse Lux."

"Is Tse a title? The other guy was Tse something too."

"Yes."

"Do you guys think your world would benefit from taking, don't know, vaccines and better seeds back with you? Can I have a piece of Maitimo, Cam -"

"Does it have to be a hair, he'd probably be horrified - which one, for that matter -"

"That's why we took shifts," says Tse Lux. "Saving up for stuff."

"We have a lot of money and would be very happy to help you cover that - and it doesn't have to be a hair, fingernail or something would work - not the four-year-old -"

Cam hands him a fingermail trimming.

"Why's that?" asks Tse Lux.

"We have a lot of money because Cam is a demon, demons can make arbitrary material objects, Bar accepts money made by demons as legitimate."