"There's a mixed town or something? Innsmouth, if I remember the name right."

"Oh, huh." 

"We'll have to keep an ear open for rumors, I suppose." 

"Yeah. Though I hope there's not too many, most non-humans do best when we can hide..."

"That's part of why." 

Nod. "I'm no use in a library. Maybe we can find a map, figure out how close Innsmouth is to Miskatonic, and I can head down if it's close enough to send my message? Or we can all wait to go together, I guess..."

"No use in a library?" 

Shrug. "Not good at book stuff."

"Hmm. But you are good at people..." 

"What're you thinking of?"

"How do you feel about helping vet potential necromancy students?" 

"You'll have to tell me what a good student looks like, but that sounds fun!"

"We're trying to vet for having a functioning sense of ethics that we can fine-tune for things like 'non-humans are people too'." 

"Cool! I might also be able to get, like, 'would actually be good at this,' but getting a sense of ethics isn't hard."

"The worst-case scenario if we try to teach someone who isn't good at it is some wasted time and effort. The worst-case scenario if we teach someone who refuses to understand that sending smallpox blankets to the Deep Ones would be bad is much worse." 

"...Yeah, definitely."

"We would very much like to avoid that." 

She nods. "Might avoid some of it by openly taking students from everywhere and every walk of life? So the super bad ones won't even apply."

"There is that. A black person from the South is less likely to jump to lynching as a solution to a perceived problem." 

She nods, then perks up. "I don't have to look white, my mom just picked this race because it's easier this way in America, if we want to make possibly-racists uncomfortable. I wouldn't want them to be making their fellow students uncomfortable either, even if they're okay with non-humans."

"Ooh, now there's a thought." 

"It's a very useful ability!" she says, shifting faces.

"Shoggoth shapeshifting seems very useful." 

"Yep." And another new face. "I can also get bigger, though not as much as an adult. But like human-flesh density, I could be a ten-foot-diameter sphere?"

"--Gosh."