"The Bell is not evil; either she is okay with some Bell-managed residual trauma from the war or she is flawlessly being impersonated, Kib thought she would not prefer that I check so I didn't. Boots should be able to check less invasively and Cam might too. Hi, Alice!"

"Hi!" says Alice. "So the way this works is you have to intend on trying it if I don't interrupt you. This is compatible with being sure I'll interrupt you, but you do need to at least mostly intend to follow through if I don't."

He does not actually anticipate he will be that messed up by letting a Findekáno get a complete read on him. "Okay."

He makes an uncomfortable tail movement but then follows it up with one that should be interpretable even to a non-Andalite Matirin as 'well, I have never had any luck at talking you down from things' and then starts morphing.

It's gross. Everyone stares in horrified fascination.

"Can't move enough of the ear out of the way," Alice reports. "On an indestructible person or on a vampire either."

"That is a remarkably unaesthetic sort of power," Golden remarks of the partial morph-in-progress.

He demorphs. <Our Andi is an estreen, a person who can make it very elegant.>

"Andi is your Bell's sister? You're the only one who has one of those."

"Well, Loki has a sister, but Loki's adopted, is the new Bell adopted?"

"Golden, you immune to Andalite thoughtspeak too?"

"...did he say something? Apparently. Sorry," she says to Finleran.

<She is not. She lived with her mother until it was necessary to feign her death, and rescued her father from being a Controller, and her mother died in the Atlantic strike.>

He repeats this out loud. "Gosh, this will be inconvenient."

"I used to have more gaps for convenience powers. They've tightened up. Possibly at some point someone should actually try this with Elspeth but Alice won't be able to see in advance, hybrids throw her off."

"Well, Elspeth doesn't mind if people read her mind and spends most of her time around people who habitually do, so I doubt a Yeerk could infiltrate with her, but we can keep her well clear of Yeerks until we have a chance to test that."

<We can get some animals to morph Yeerk - it will take some time and be inconvenient, but it could be done - and then she can run that test.>

Repeat out loud for Golden.

"Sure."

<Can you drop me off back in my world?>

"Of course. Thanks - " - directed at Alice as well - and then Finleran is back where he came from.

He goes to find the Imperatrix.

In her office, but she can send this guy to talk to Yue-yue instead, he doesn't need her personal attention - "Hi."

<Hi. I think that could plausibly be an alternate universe Matirin. He said that he was married to his version of me and that they were both dating the other man. They teleported me to another dimension which had a you, only prettier - not in the same way the visiting Matirin was, she was also - paler, and had golden eyes, and looked generally terrifying. They invited someone else in, who was able as soon as we resolved to experiment to determine that indestructible people and vampires are not vulnerable to Yeerks. The other Bella does not have a sister; the Matirin said something to the effect that none of the other Bellas have sisters, to which the Bella corrected her that Loki did. I offered to get them an animal-morphed-Yeerk for possibly-fatal-to-Yeerk experiments at teleporting a host without the Yeerk, and they sent me back. If it was orchestrated it was very well orchestrated. How are you?>

"I'm fine. And intrigued by all this alternate universe business, I do wonder what they'll tell me over dinner. Vampires, apparently. Are they haring off to find Matirin now?"

<They did not say, but I assume so. They made plans to tell you things over dinner?>