"Why not?"

"They've got their own planet to fix up and it sounds like it'll be a piece of work? I'm not clear how many greys actually need keeping busy or if that's just everyone's favorite way to say 'we want a war' for some other reason. And I'm not sure they wouldn't consider 'kill all the Yeerks' a perfectly good solution."

"...fair enough. Well, if they're not helping what resources are we planning on having for hypothetical Yeerk related solutions?"

"Daeva, I guess Elves, possibly the Yeerk nemesis aliens, I didn't see more than a paragraph on them..."

"Sharp-ended blue centaurs with stalk eyes!"

"That was in the paragraph! Also 'gave the Yeerks interstellar travel, now regret it' - the Federation will feel so vindicated - though really, 'don't give mind-control-slugs spaceflight' is one thing..."

"Also at least some of them can shapeshift. - and the problem isn't that they colonialized the slugs too much."

"It kind of sounds like they might have been trying to? And then the slugs took the tech and leapt for it - ugh - I'm glad the Earth doesn't have a you, the poor you -"

"I mean, there might be a me there, but if they're not in a place I know to look... I don't think 'alt' is a conju- I'm an idiot."

"Hmm?"

"For all I know 'alt' is a conjurable parameter and I did not check." He has a tiny Iobel in his hand. "I'm an idiot."

" - gosh. Okay. That'll be convenient in future - is there an Arda native you -"

"- no."

"And either you or us in the new Amenta -"

Handful of little Andalites and a human.

" - well."

"I should have made these slower, I don't know which is you."

"I probably can't tell pointy-ended blue centaurs apart anyway. This makes the war against the Yeerks easier."

"It does!"

"And makes me mildly more opposed to waiting eight years for Aitim's tiny friend to grow up."

"Only mildly?"

"I mean, if we had prospects of faster FTL -"

"Lightleaper-warp combined solution is probably it."

"Then yeah, we should go get them, they'll be annoyed to miss out on scheming to dismantle the space slugs."

"Get Aitim to explain why we need the door held? - holding it that long will probably mean confronting the foster parents."