"I don't suppose there are a bunch more of those in a box in your Dome that we could go and get?" asks Bella.

<They're surgically installed, and that isn't done aboard ship.>

<...What? No. There is not.>

"Fuck yes."

"Bella."

"I stand by my profanity. Unlimited morphs."

Trouble laughs and hugs her.

"Okay, new modus operandi is acquire everything you can get your hands on, and Ax - can we call you that? - can teach us the mixing-DNA-thing and then Trouble can combine a few people and be able to go out in public and Charlie can too and we won't be impersonating anyone specific - we should all have 'generic human' morphs, I'll brainstorm situations where we can quietly acquire people especially if they're asleep and won't notice the sedative effect."

<Ax is fine,> says Ax, <if it is easier to produce with mouth-sounds. I will do my best to teach the Frolis maneuver but I still have not tried it myself. It only works with multiple individuals of a single species.> He shifts his weight a little. <Who is your prince?>

Andi looks at Bella.

Trouble looks at everyone, thoughtfully.

Robin... also looks at Bella, although she glances at Ethan first.

And Ethan rolls his eyes.

<I'm... only an aristh. Too young and untrained to fight. That's why I was in the Dome when it fell instead of in the main part of the ship. An aristh must have a prince. Something like one, under the circumstances, will have to do.> He tracks gazes, then bows his head to Bella, tail low. <I will fight for you, Prince Bella, until I can return to my people.>

"...I am willing to tell you to do stuff, but if you're going to address me by a title it's going to have to be 'Princess' or else something completely different."

"Female form of 'prince' in English. I'm not sure why thoughtspeak is rendering it as anything that specific to begin with, but there it is. Perhaps you can't tell - me and Andi and Robin are female, Charlie and Trouble and Ethan are male. I can't really be sure about you, come to think of it."

Ethan snickers.

<Do females often fight among humans or is this an extremity of circumstance?>

<There has been occasional talk of allowing a handful of female cadets, as a test of the idea, but - yes.>