We'll talk to you tomorrow, then, unless something comes up sooner.

Thanks for calling.

She emails Andi, and Finleran too.

"There's something she's not saying about Matirin but I don't think it's that he's secretly evil. - want to check everyone for brain parasites, Cam -"

"Have been as she mentions people, came up empty except for Josefa and Ristrell."

"I guess Finleran is a good person to ask about what's up with Matirin."

"After a few minutes for the email to go through it sounds like we can go ahead and do that."

"You want to -"

"Yeah." He looks for Finleran.

"Looks just like the other one to me."

"I can see some differences. Cam, do you want to make me some stuff of his, to make the scry with the telepathy ball work better?"

"Does that work? What do centuars even own, they don't seem to wear clothes or anything. Maybe he has a computer." Computer.

"I'm not sure if it works but it can't hurt."

Cam hands it to her.

And they can repeat the process to reach Finleran.

"Hello, we're seven alternate versions of the Imperatrix and also seven of we think but aren't a hundred percent confident of Matirin who have been all swept together for a mostly nonconsensual conference of ourselves and have decided to exacerbate the matter, using local magic to address you. What is up with Matirin, she did not seem to be telling us everything - I guess you don't have to answer that either if there's some very good reason -"

< - hi. Matirin left Earth at the request of the Andalite high command, he was needed to lead operations elsewhere in the war against the Yeerks. I am sure there's a lot she is not telling you on that front, can you prove the alternate versions thing?>

"Uh - Hemaka, do you have anything handy you'd expect to hold for a blue centaur alien, you're the only one of him we've got around -"

" - I'm not sure. I like adrenaline sports? I have eight younger siblings, three of them full siblings. When I was fourteen I had my arm cut off for a week because I got in an argument about whether the criminal penalties for stealing were proportionate. I can't always tell if my husband's lying to me but I can always tell when he's lying to himself, which is more useful. His father doesn't like me."

"Findekáno has only three siblings - Maitimo, you should meet his, check which ones - and is good at blessing design which is a sort of computer programming for the chips we run our minds on, and, uh, has never had any limbs removed because that's not a thing we do... Fëanáro has mellowed somewhat towards him over time but it's still a matter of benign neglect..."

"My father's never said anything against Kan except that it's a shame earlier life choices of mine made me unlikely to date green. He has two siblings."

"Three siblings. My mother abandoned her to die, once, so there's that."

<...say more about that?>

Oh no. Uh, our world had an evil god, he spent a long time arranging for my people to be on the brink of a civil war and then killed the King and stole some important magic stuff and fled, we followed him, there were some disputes over the succession, there was a bloody fight over the ships we needed to reach the other continent, my cousin helped us with that fight and was betrayed, afterwards, to learn we'd been the ones to start it - she kept following us - there weren't enough ships to take everyone to the other continent. My mother arranged for her loyalists to go first. When she reached the other side, she burned the ships. They were stranded with no way to follow us except crossing the northern ice, which took them years, lots of people died.

<That's very interesting.>

I'm so sorry. 

<Matirin didn't know.>