"Except Timothy's -?"

"- when it was looking like they'd won Timothy made friends with his and got him to sync Milliways with everywhere again so they'd have time to notice what had happened and it worked but his had a bunch of conditions for doing it and Timothy is adhering to the conditions because if he weren't the sort of person who would -"

"Yeah that's the sort of thing Timothy would do."

"Yeah. And it worked, so." Hug. "You okay?"

"It's incredibly gross that there was one in me but I was asleep so I'm probably okayer than most people?"

"You are way okayer than the new Bell Ambela had to sing to her for a couple days before she even calmed down enough to kill herself - she's a demon now and I think that's helping - Tireh didn't daevafy and Ambela can't but they're not super okay either - thankfully they didn't bother Kib and Bella's too little -"

"Oh wow Kib might have never recovered."

"Yeah. They were short on Yeerks, so they hadn't bothered. Yet."

"Are you okay -"

"I mean I told my Yeerk that Timothy was going to torture her to death and I would have been happy to have been right about that but - it's over, you're okay -"

Nod. Hug.

Squeeze. "Sorry it took a while to come get you things've been really - and I was a little bit -"

"That is completely okay it's not like I noticed."

"It's not." And they go back out into the main bar.

"Why didn't they keep me?"

"Uh.

So I couldn't control anything but the indestructibility runs off what I think my body plan is, and I checked that by dropping the wings and then I started trying really hard to believe my body plan did not include limbs, and the Yeerks were upset about that and they said if I stopped they'd - leave you alone - and I wasn't sure what the right thing to do was but I. Stopped."

Hug.

Hug. 

Lots and lots of hug.

And they arrange to summon Cam back to continue his parole. He writes Niari a thank you note.

Cam comes when called. It seems like good form to summarize the events to his parole officer so he does that.

He gets a different room.

Orik's in the main bar sometimes, seems to consider saying something and decides against it.

Cam does not have to be in the main bar ever it's not like he needs to go down for meals.

He's not sure whether he can touch Cir safely, but he goes up to find him as soon as there are no immediate disasters.

This wrinkle doesn't seem to have occurred to Cir, who reaches for him right away.