"That as well. The pain faded in time, for me, but."

...Nod. "Not worrying about embarrassing yourself is useful, at least." 

"It does make some things much easier."

"And it's rather foolish to worry about the opinions of people who would revile us all if they knew the truth." 

"I'd hope some would come around."

"Yes. But embarrassment is a comparatively minor thing." 

"Easier to deflect, as well."

"One nice thing about being in a large city where nobody knows you." 

"Yes. Perhaps once we have somewhat of a school we should set up in such a city."

"One possible benefit of traveling like this, then; we can assess cities for such a purpose." 

"Yes. We should perhaps make a list of ideal qualities."

"--Maybe Innsmouth would be a good choice, if they'll have us."

"Perhaps! We'll have to talk to them; they may not like the risk of exposure. But it could be a good way to reinvigorate their community."

"Perhaps we should work out how to do their resurrections before asking." 

She nods. "I honestly don't know how quickly that will proceed; Hiram did the initial work on bridging from animal to human trials."

"It probably can't have taken more than a hundred years or so." 

"I suspect that's likely, yes. And that it will be easier with each new species."

"Do you know what animal species he's managed?"

"He started with mice, then cats, then pigs. Pigs are apparently very comparable to humans, so he was able to move to humans after that."

"But nothing like fish or frogs." 

"No; they work too differently. Still, he'd likely start over with them, for the Deep Ones. I - am very not sure where he would start with shoggoths. We don't know enough about their biology, I think..."

"Maybe we could get tissue samples from Nereus." 

"Yes. I wonder if the tissues look different when they're in different shapes?"

"I would suspect so." 

"It'll certainly be an interesting experiment, especially comparing the tissues to what they're mimicking at the time..."