<No.>

"Then you haven't traveled in time from a time when humans invented phones because we very loudly conquered the whole planet a little while ago."

"I mean maybe we make you all leave."

<Humans hadn't had contact with spacefaring civilizations when the infiltration began.>

"Yeah, exactly, even if you make us all leave I think he'd know what we were. People like Aunt Isama'd keep pestering you about keeping trade routes open even if you kick us all to Mars or we all move to someplace Pelape finds because it's got friendlier natives."

His tail swishes in a deeply unhappy sort of way, not that anyone who isn't accustomed to Andalites will notice.

<What year is it?>

"1809."

<Huh. I've never heard of Amentans.>

"We're a lot like humans, from, uh, your perspective."

<...is that your actual, not-morphed shape?>

"Yup. We don't have that thing. It's pretty neat though."

"They're so similar that sometimes for no obvious reason humans and entire human families have Amentan duplicates!"

"How do you mean?" says Isun.

"For instance," says Ana, "I'm here because my parents are the mysterious Amentan duplicates of those guys' brother and his wife. And my cousin in the window there is his alt and his wife's alt's kid. It's totally bizarre. But it got us secret research grants!"

<I think I still don't understand.>

"You mean like...twins?"

"No, twins have different personalities, or can. We and our respective alts have the same personalities, similar names in many cases, mostly but not invariably matching families out to varying distances, lots of weird coincidences - except they clearly aren't coincidences, it stacks up way too much to be coincidental, we just don't know why it happens. We found out when we went to pester the Amentan who was running things post-conquest about how he'd conquered our planet and he looked like yet another of my many brothers-in-law."

"I've never heard of anything like that."

"Neither had we!"

Swish swish.

"Do you have clerics, because if so I can probably prove I'm not under the control of a mind parasite."

<I don't know what that is.>

"Ah, too bad."

"We don't have magic at all. - I'm the same thing as him. I'm just in morph so Isun can hear me. And Kimli. Because they don't seem to hear thoughtspeak."

"Is thoughtspeak not magic? Osanwë is magic, that's what the Elves do to talk without speaking. And they can't use that on us either."

<What do you even mean by 'magic'.>