"Yes, that too."

"Not that surgical generator strikes should really be less terrifying."

"...I might have a way to de-Kandrona a sun."

"Oh?"

"On our way to hooking up with the rest of the peal me and Joy found a world where the magic system works by moving properties between things. It's portable - you have to be from there to learn it but people who can do it can do it wherever. It's touch range, which means I will need to get someone who can do this hexed indestructible, and it might have some ceiling on object size or not work on plasma or something, but in principle if it works an indestructible troporter would just need to visit each sun with an also-indestructible thing that can theoretically emit radiation, and move the property of emitting that specific kind from sun to lamp."

"Wow. Maybe we could make smaller Kandrona emitters to test on before we ask Hex to corral us some spellbinders."

"Yeah, definitely. And it still might fail at the 'touch a sun' stage. But if it worked it'd work."

"What are we sharing with Ristrell about our capabilities here?"

"Mm - alternate universes, alts, and magic exist, our alts brought us some magic, exact details are need-to-know, we have a plan to force the surrender or starvation of every Imperial Yeerk and would appreciate your help with integrating the surrendered into Tide in whatever way is most convenient for you, what do you need from us to do that. I... think she won't claim to need to know things she doesn't need to know."

<I agree.>

"She sounds so reasonable!"

"We're not close personal friends but as people who could be running a colony of Yeerks on my Moon go she's nearly ideal."

<She is a bit abrasive but I concur with the Imperatrix that there is no one better to handle a Yeerk resistance.>

"You folks need me for anything else before it's time to hunt down all the generators?"

<Are we trying the resurrection trick after the war is over?>

"The what?"

"Wished-on power to add mind to a basement dweller. You get thirty seconds to kick yourself."

"Oh Jesus fucking Christ - we need, we need a fucking comprehensive list of all the known limits to things and we need to go down it systematically checking for possible exploits, and over again every time we find new - fuck - okay, who's wishing it -"

<My brother Cayaldwin came up with the idea.>

"The Curufin template."

"He have a backup if the wish won't go?"

<The ability to make and adjust and vanish prototypes of his work at will. I told him 'arbitrary material objects' apparently goes through but he was not especially interested.>

"Well, the arbitrary material objects one doesn't come with vanishing, but that should be nice and safe. Let's try this right the fuck now, I can't believe I didn't think of -"

"Thirty seconds!"

"Did you stop at thirty seconds -"