Huh. Maybe if they morphed flat Elves and got the osanwë?

Apparently there are additional security issues with morphing Flat Elves, because mindreading.

That just means they need to teach everyone on the planet the private thoughts thing, right? Or do they not want to do that lest they need the mindreading?

Well, it'd be a problem if the morphed Yeerks wanted to go anywhere else ever.

Not if they wanted to go to an Arda or Vanda Nossëo or something. And they could just morph something else if they wanted to go to an Earth.

Leaving Yeerks who haven't been through the whole elaborate vetting process in morph-capable hosts: also a problem.

He goes and finds the alts who are tinkering with Escafil devices to get a broader range of capabilities and asks to help.

They are delighted to have his help. He can make prototypes and so forth for them and catch up on the physics while they sleep.

Poor them, having to sleep. He never does it if he can get his hands on a Maia instead. He reads and researches and helps.

They will eventually have something that lets you acquire new morphs only when in contact with the same box that you got the ability from in the first place, which should be enough to give some untrustworthy Yeerks Elf-morph options on their own planet, but they cannot get it overnight. And eventually Matirin says gently that he's been away from Warp a really long time, and he - 

- goes home. Makes himself a grassy field even though he can't morph here. Does not pop in on Bella.

Hi.

Hi.

Have a good time in Cube?

Yeah. I wanna help the Yeerks, they're all lonely.

They are? Why?

Because they're used to living in peoples' heads, I guess, and just interacting with people isn't enough. Are you like Butterfly, when you morph things you can't tell what it's like to be them?

I haven't tried morphing anything yet. It seems likely though.

He sends her what it is like to be a Yeerk.

Huh. I guess that explains some things.

They could still get permission. But yeah.

It's a weird sort of loneliness that's satisfied by standard Yeerk operating procedure.

That too. 

I'm sure something comfy will be worked out eventually, it'll just take a while.

Yeah. But there are billions of them and they're so lonely right now. 

Also I asked my alt and he thought he gave them coordinates for something safe and far away but I don't know how to talk about that with anybody but I sort of think it matters.

That does matter, that matters a lot - how did it get mixed up -?

Apparently over long enough jumps z-space has weird attractors related to spacetime and they think that's what happened because the alternative is that someone intercepted the communication and replaced a different, plausible one and that'd be - really weird, if that were what happened. Unless it's like a rule or something that at that point in the war the me has to try to get rid of them safely and end up getting some of them killed, like it's a rule that something bad happens to the Maitimo, but -