"I didn't even say it to him, so unless you're mistaken about him reading your mind all the time..."

"I don't think he's reading my mind - I can hear him talking now, he's mostly laughing and shouting about freedom. I just think maybe don't bring it up to him if he's getting grouchy?"

"I will avoid it."

"Thanks! Do you think he'll be okay if we bring him back to Earth? There's no one around the base in Snow, he could hang out there..."

"Well, he won't fit in this shuttle, though that's not prohibitive since I can make a bigger one... I'm not sure Snow would like it."

He concentrates for a bit.

"Kurama says his size isn't constant."

"Then if he's willing to hold it down to moose-size for a few hours we could in principle fit him in the shuttle we have; the other thing's less tractable."

"Yeah. We'd have to talk to the Queen, though I don't think having a Tailed Beast around is considered much more dangerous than a jinchuuriki?"

"I suppose there's a point to be had there. We can send emails from here, there's a delay but not a prohibitive one."

"Okay! I don't mind hanging out here until we get a reply."

So Cam emails Mariko asking if it would be okay to bring their recently unsealed so far not very hostile tailed beast down planetside so he can run around avoiding people.

There is a pretty long delay before he gets a:

Sure, though we'll revoke that if there's any conflicts he causes.

Understandable.

"I think I can explain that decently to Kurama. He does have any concept of territory."

A pause, and: "Yeah, he's willing to go back with us and not start anything with Snow people, but he can just fold back into me and then fold out again, we don't need to put him in the shuttle."

"...well, that's the sort of thing it might have been good to know before letting him loose."

"I dunno if he actually knew it, though we probably could've guessed from the 'he'll still be co-located with all my clones' thing."

"I mean, I was assuming 'ability to issue forth' and 'ability to run background processes' might be different."

"Yeah, I got caught by that too. Still, though, I don't think it's a huge strike against him?"

"Not a huge one."

"Do we wanna head back now, then?"

"Unless you are having too much fun on the moon."

"I might go join Kurama in jumping around if you don't mind following me with air?"

"I don't mind but don't get carried away, I can't fly as fast as you can run." Cam get aloft.

"I'll save riding Kurama around for Earth, then!" he calls teasingly.

Bounces! At normal human speeds even, though he's jumping higher than an unenhanced human could.

Even an unenhanced human can jump pretty damn high on the moon! But Cam can follow him with air.