And after a few months of nonstop Yeerk interviewing the space Elves and the Resistance Yeerks organizing them finally start to run out of Yeerks interested in participating in their interview.

And Tide is organized accordingly. Amicus Terra types and safely birth-controlled Nest types and solo human nothlits and holdouts staying put in pools.

The Space Elves wish Ristrell well and leave Tide; there's plenty to do, but plenty of Yeerks to do it. 

She thanks them all for their help and if they need anything they should feel encouraged to let her know.

Unless she happens to have suggestions for the freaked-out Space Elves who got infested back when Issiak was making his move, no, they can't think of anything they need.

Terra Amicus is good at screening but there are sometimes conflicts and they have therapists with not literally zero experience in dealing with people whose Yeerk situations were unpleasant. They do have literally zero experience with Elves though.

Come to think of it there are probably some subtle artists who've dealt with something sufficiently similar because of Materia sucking.

Well, demonic possession and similar phenomena aren't common but they can find someone who's had a class on it.

And meanwhile he finishes his first course in magic. He's been going back to Shadow in the evening, sharing notes, talking politics.

He can cast a couple cantrips. They delight him. 

"Did you tell them you were going to try magic rollout somewhere other than Shadow first?"

"Yes, that was my first instinct, it's a lot less containable here. Most places I would have to take a Maia whose judgment I trusted - or one who listened to someone whose judgment I trusted - but I wouldn't have to worry someone would decide to violently conquer the world - and if I start it somewhere with reductionist physics and they do blow up their planet they're retrievable, I think there are a couple dozen people wished to do resurrections by now -"

"I could definitely conquer the world while relying on a pacifist Maia for mana."

"Yes, yes, I know. Boots thought it was less foolproof than I'd like too, but it's indubitably simpler than here."

"Also -"

"Also they expect they can find leadership in most places that are more value-aligned with them than you are, yes."

"Think they're right?"

"Hmm, probably? The average ruler on some pre-industrial human planet has probably done worse than you but is also likelier to have a sincere change of heart when it stops being strategic to be awful."

"A sincere change of heart."

"I expect so, anyway, if I'm wrong I'll let you know. Most people are good at rationalizing and will be able to convince themselves they opposed something all along. They're bringing back people on some of Mîr's adjacencies who've been dead for thousands of years and they mostly notice that the society around them now considers slavery unacceptable and go 'oh, yes, I would have ended it if it hadn't been so expensive' -"

"So I'm insufficiently hypocritical to be trustworthy."

"...also a better liar."

"How're you planning to do the distribution?"

"I was hoping you'd have some ideas, actually - and could maybe point me at some Maiar..."

Gleet bio-filters sell really well as convenient window screens, and someone figures out a way for them to exclude specific species instead of including specific species so they can be used for one-sweep mosquito and parasitic worm eradication. Matirin decides to pick a planet off Cube to try sharing magic and tech with but he is still pretty bothered by the neglect of planets that haven't risen to attention yet so he suggests to Epic that they just go around dropping paper libraries with some handheld translators on boring worlds that don't seem likely to burn anyone for witchcraft if such appear. People will probably make something of it. There's no magic easily distributable that way, but the combine harvester is as good as magic, really, for the problems you face at a current tech level.

Epic is totally in favor of bouncing around appearing entire libraries. He makes them different every time. They set up miniature cameras streaming to a crystal ball so they can see if this results in disaster. And then they go back to Cube and find a neighboring world.