"Yeah. Sorry, didn't want to assemble in advance what you'd need to know because he was reading all of it. They grabbed Midnight because they wanted to give the teleport to their Hork-Bajir, needed someone with flat Elf osanwë - he wasn't Yeerked, he was cooperating -"

"Of fucking course -" He hammers on T'Mir's office door.

"Just a -"

"No, instantly."

She comes out. "What is it?"

"Loose Yeerks with teleportation working with Midnight, get the story from them," he gestures at the Space Elves, "interrupt me to refine my forensic conjuration as necessary."

...T'Mir gets Boots.

"Please tell us what happened. Boots can behave as though she has compatible osanwë."

So he sends everything from the moment the woman he'd been teleporting home collapsed when they landed to the moment when the demon arrived - Midnight was negotiating with it, he wasn't paying attention because he didn't want to notice a loophole for his Yeerk -

"- I'll tell Butterfly, you bounce to Cam and try scrying from Revelation."

Nod.

When T'Mir arrives in Butterfly's office Butterfly's out. She checks the network; no note on whereabouts. Updates Boots. Waits.

Butterfly lands back in her office. "Did they even notice the hypocrisy -"

<Not in the slightest! That was the most satisfying conversation I've had in years - or witnessed, really ->

"- hi, T'Mir -"

"The starving Yeerks were playing possum; they can actually last longer than three days for some reason and one escaped in its ambassador and got a teleporter and took some of the Hork-Bajir and struck up an alliance with Midnight."

Tail-lash - <Do we have any idea where they are ->

"The Space Elf hosts were left dead in Revelation and forked as soon as they were noticed missing. Cam's working on tracking them from there, Boots is trying wizardry scrying."

"Revelation -"

"Died shortly after Midnight summoned a demon."

<So in addition to the problem there are Yeerks with a teleport out in some dimension we can't reach them, there's also the problem that demons have now been summoned to make worldleapers and now if they cared to share every demon in Hell can cease being in Hell if they decide they'd like to ->

"Yes. We don't know why or how the hosts were killed, though, it was abrupt and there was no prior discussion to which the hosts had been party, it's loosely possible the demon was incorrectly bound and killed them all, Cam's checking things."

<And the best case scenario is an incorrectly bound demon who killed everyone in sight not their summoner.> Tail-lash.

Butterfly's checking the comment stream from the crystal ball. "- they weren't anywhere near inhabited Revelation, though."

<If daeva know of lightleapers it might have made one and be heading there, we have four and a half days ->

"They do, but that's more than enough time for Joy to find them if that's the case -"