"No substantial planning of any kind should hinge on this but I would find it immensely personally entertaining to do magic in front of some Electorate folks and be questioned about it and wince and say 'I'm so sorry, the people I learned this from aren't ready to share it with Andalites yet'."

Swish-swish-swish. <I approve of arranging for that to happen, probably after the war. The people with the magic planning and timing powers seem like the first ones to look to, here.>

"The problem with the magic planning powers is that they give Siobhan no feedback at all. She didn't know she was a witch until somebody who can copy other witches' powers told her she was. So she might have an in-dimension limit, like Alice - she might have an adjacency limit too but that'd still let her work here - and she wouldn't know it, it'd seem just the same to her. So we shouldn't lean that hard on magic planning person. Timing person, Nathan, is confirmed to work without adjacency limit."

<So we have teleportation, very good intel, and we can permit it to be assumed that we are bringing in our ships and so on from a neighboring dimension rather than having them made on the spot, unless we want to convey that it is silly to try to outlast us on account of our ability to make arbitrarily many ships.>

"And Elspeth can do some Yeerk testing, she won't mind, she goes around broadcasting the contents of her head as loudly as is safe for people around her anyway. She's indestructible but indestructible people can let things destruct them if they want and she's not as baseline inflexible as a full vampire."

Shudder. <And then we will know whether to publicize osanwë right away.>

"Morphing gives thoughtspeak to species that don't have it natively, it could maybe be passed off as an upgrade of that? Which isn't being mass-distributed because of the abuse potential."

<Are we concealing the fact alternate dimensions exist? Are we planning to do so permanently?>

"I've had fine luck with Wish's people knowing alternate dimensions exist, which was sort of necessary since my wife is from one, but I'm not forthcoming about how many except when I'm adding them as protectorates, and don't mention alts to the general public - I think people would have a lot of mostly frivolous interest in looking up their alts and alt-finding is not a mass-producible service yet."

"We're a member planet of Vanda Nossëo, so everyone knows and I think there was in fact some frivolous alt-finding but within the Ardas that's more manageable."

"Copying Gem's strategy, minus the protectorates and the wife, for the time being, seems reasonable to me."

Swish swish. <So the rest of you will have to take some care to not go out in public.>

"Or get better at illusioning it, or maybe morph'll work fine with indestructibility or Finos will re-chart indestructibility to be more cooperative for this purpose."

"Or they can just say they morphed me or partially morphed me because it is a sign of respect in their culture to imitate people, or something. There is a perfect local explanation for people looking alike."

<Then everyone'll be doing it. But that would work.>

"Not that many people have acquired me, and everyone knows better than to assume someone who looks like me is me. Andi does me-impressions on television all the time."

<People could try to blend for it, though they'd have to be talented.>

"And we are not going to wear our hair like you, the cultural explanation'll have to cover that."

<Elf thing?>

"Little bit."

"Elves have an unbraided hair thing the way humans have a nudity thing."

"I had to explain the nudity thing! I woke up one night abducted by stark naked human-morphed aliens who wanted me to explain clothes and pizza!"

<It was not at all intuitive how to acquire synthetic skin! Or pizza!>

Gem laughs hysterically. "Why was pizza a priority?"

<Andi woke first, and she thought she was having, ah, a dream, and she thought the dream would be improved by pizza, and requested some.>