Matirin does not himself indulge but he doesn't tell his people to cut it out either. <I think this world would be a popular tourist destination in peacetime.>

"We'd be delighted to have you."

<Before we were so delightfully sidetracked I was inquiring about the Mioleen synopsis of recent history ->

"Oh, yes. I expect their rendition was not inaccurate, though it might have been impolitic; do you just want an independent summary or do you want to corroborate specific points?"

<I'd love to hear your account of it all.>

So she goes over the Antiam perspective on the Transition Era.

Tails swish at the mention of the massacres.

"Oh, yes, it was horrible and completely avoidable with our procedure, or even just more conservatism."

<I do not think I understand the problem with the reds. Is it something we'd experience just from the Amentan instincts, if we saw one who hadn't been through your procedure, or is it learned?>

"I - assume you'd experience direct instinct related to the things reds handle, but knowing that they're associated with reds out of context is I think learned."

<That makes sense. I should at this time demorph; there is a recommended upper bound on time spent in morph, beyond which there can be complications in demorphing.>

"Of course."

Andalites re-Andalite! Some different Andalites morph Amentan. 

 - one of the greens scurrying around the spaceship turns and blinks at a few of the Andalites.

The Andalites don't notice.

...he sends Aitim pictures.

...he notices.

"Uh, Isel -"

"Yeah?"

"There is one girl Andalite because apparently they do jobs off gender and grey is male - well, soldiers are male, dance is female - it sounds pretty stupid honestly but - take a look at the one girl Andalite in Amentan form -"

" - huh."

"And have a look at the boy Amentans." Picture picture picture picture -

" - okay. Weird. - you should dye that color for diplomatic conferences it's, uh, demonstrative -"

"I have no desire to signal 'I am the commander of a people who have been at war a really really long time' and it probably loses some of the effect by not being true."

"So they claim their morphing thing goes off touching people and getting a morphological - whatever - but actually they are morphing into a specific family of Anitami blues and greens - what do we make of that - in that case why are they touching people -"

"I have no idea but I think I'll line the pictures up and take it to the council." And he does that.