Elesse stands patiently.

Big sniff. "I suppose I can see it."

She snickers and nuzzles Ellisaria. "If you have to have squishy alts..."

"If it helps, you are the first dragons we've encountered."

"Hmm."

She cranes her neck around. "Awww. Being a dragon's fun."

"I am sure it must be."

"Meeting our other alts sounds fun, though. Even if they are squishy."

"That might be slightly complicated, logistically. You are both much larger than the spaces we usually design for."

She makes an amused noise -

And sings - then shrinks, morphing into a human shape (with carefully arranged scales instead of clothes, mostly because clothes feel so weird, but squishy people get weird about squishies with skin showing in a way they don't get weird about naked dragons). Her hair's a bit odd, stiffer than it should be, but she's passably human.

"Tada!" she says.

"Convenient."

Ellisaria also turns into a human shape, though without the singing.

She shifted so her body was pretty close to the point of her in reach of Ellisaria, which means hopping over to her's pretty easy.

"It took me forever to figure this out. But sometimes being squishy sized is convenient, yeah."

"At some point Bellona and El will be sending a message to my group, and I expect a response fairly promptly. If you would like to join us for that, you're welcome to."

"Okay. Lemme know when and where to be, then, I guess."

"I think they just need to finish working out how to target the array. We're staying with them in the dwarves' mountain for now."

She nods. "I like the dwarves."

"A practical people, with good priorities."

"I can zoom over here to let y'all know when they're ready," Ruby says. "If y'all don't want to hang out in the mountain."

"It has been some time since we visited. This may be a good excuse to do so."

"Yeah! And Bellona and El are smart. It shouldn't take them that long."

"We will return with you, then."

"Cool. Our house is full right now, but I don't think you guys would have trouble finding somewhere to sleep, if it's more than a day..."

"I dare say we will manage."