Wow that morph is incredibly gross! Ugh! 

Nayoki sticks around and watches and then eventually, gingerly, scrapes Mhalir-Leareth off the floor. Ew. She swallows and lifts him to her ear. 

...Weird. Weird weird weird. Leareth had expected to like this morph and he's not at all sure he does, actually. 

<Nayoki? Am I doing it?>

Uh, she can't move, so probably? 

<How do I get your memories about Mindhealing?>

How is she supposed to know. 

Well, hopefully the Yeerk morph comes with some instincts. He - sort of tries to reach for it, like he's going in deeper than Thoughtsensing... 

He gets a LOT more than he was intending to - wow he did not really need Nayoki's memories of having sex, at all - but when he thinks about Mindhealing, yep, it's all there. 

<...I think I have it> And he retreats from her head. 

She catches him. And then quickly puts him down because he's demorphing in a hurry and getting heavier by the second. 

:That was fascinating!: she sends as soon as his Gifts are back. 

:I suppose so but it is not my favourite morph by far. Thank you: He accepts her offer of a hand to pull himself up from where he's sitting on the conference room floor. 

:Leareth, are you...all right...?: 

He gives her a confused look. :Yes. Fine. Just - feeling somewhat hurried. I know it has been days, just...: Sigh. :Can I have the conference room to myself, please, I need to think about Gate-targeting: 

She nods and heads out. 

He writes out a brief message for Ashul on his plan, which is that he intends to rendezvous with the other Andalites' ship via a Gate-technique they probably don't know exists and then return or get a comms-spell message out as soon as he knows more of what's happening, and that he'll get Matirin to safety if he judges Matirin is actively in danger with them. 

He paces and thinks about the Gate-spell. This is going to be really hard. He can anchor on Matirin's Thoughtsensing amulet, he knows the magic of it, but it could be really far, so he needs the search-spell to figure out an efficient multiplanar routing for him, to cut that distance to something he can overcome... 

His mages can Gate whoever wants to go down to Earth to sync up with the base there. 

The Andalites mostly want to swap out crews for the Dome ship and teach the other Andalites how to morph Gifts.

That's an excellent idea and they'll do Gates to move people around. 

It takes Leareth a couple of hours and some mind-projecting and playing a bit with Cayaldwin's planar mapping software to test a theory, but at the end of it he's pretty sure he can anchor a search spell on Matirin's talisman and, within ten minutes or so of searching, get a feasible Gate-route. 

He morphs and partially demorphs first, so he can have ALL THE GIFTS, and takes a minute to rest from the morph, and alerts Cayaldwin that he's going now and they should expect to hear from him within the next hour. He's not especially worried about his safety given how well shielded he is right now, but it still seems like a good idea to take some backup. 

:I want to come with you: Nayoki isn't not worried, right now. 

:Sure: Leareth is barely paying attention to her. :Full shielding. I won't be able to look out for you: 

:I know: 

And he starts spooling out his search. 

The ship is about a billion miles away. The Thoughtsensing amulet is right there to anchor on.

It's not the most efficient way to route a search, the version he worked out keeps checking different planes to see if it's then findable within a certain interval, and so it takes nine minutes of holding it - asking Nayoki to grab someone so he can draw on them for energy - 

- and then he finds it. 

He brings up a threshold-less Gate that should by his reckoning be about a yard in front of Matirin, well, Matirin's Thoughtsensing amulet, and it snaps up and he's already stepping through with all his Othersenses, including the ones he doesn't usually possess, on alert. 

It's a Dome ship much like the one he just left from, to first appearances. Matirin is standing there, very still; he does not react at all to Leareth suddenly appearing, not visibly.

< - what ->

I have no idea how he did that I thought we were out of range why'd he have to come back today - you need to explain quickly -