"Thank you! We need it." He heads back.

The next morning he gets set up with more nothlit rabbits (he's now asked Nerefir for permission to give arbitrary numbers of rabbits morph, too), and then Mindspeaks Cayaldwin to ask if he's available to come check the setup, he thinks he's getting close and Cayaldwin's eyes on it might cut down the remaining trial-and-error guessing by a lot. 

Cayaldwin is happy to come consult on this; it has some similarities to the work he's doing and is also very interesting in its own right. 

Leareth mentally hops to z-space with Cayaldwin; he's figured out how to arrange it so the normal-space pockets are pretty close to each other and quick to find. He sacrifices the morph setups of three different worms in order to get the intact materials and components needed, cautiously Gates them into the rabbit's shrunken pocket without disturbing the mangled remains in there at all, and then hooks up the connections he's very sure are correct. And stares at the remaining handful, describing to Cayaldwin in Mindspeech what the last couple of errors looked like. 

Huh. He - wants to look at some schematics that are inconveniently not in z-space here with them but he can give his best guesses.

Guesses is fine for now, and then if it doesn't work, they can see what goes wrong and take a break for him to check schematics? 

Sure. He can give his best estimate of what each of the remaining connections regulate and what information might be missing.

Leareth links everything up, checks that there aren't any trailing connections that will cause problems. It'll definitely only work once, it's extremely mangled and thus unstable, but it only needs to work for the demorph.

Which he attempts next. And...? 

The demorph goes a lot farther than usual. The bond starts behaving itself, the rabbit starts to swap out, and then - keeps swapping out, feeding all of the matter in the pocket back into the material world.

Oh gods what are they going to find in its cage, Leareth wonders. :Well, we should go see: He offers Cayaldwin a mental hand and tugs them back out of z-space. 

There is a very large and concerning lump of tissue! It is not particularly rabbitlike. It is not moving.

"Well. That was different." Leareth examines it with Healing-Sight; he won't get much if all of the tissue in there is dead, but if any of it was alive, even for seconds, there should still be some energies that Healing-Sight can pick up on, to sense if any internal structure made it through. "...My short-range Foresight did not think it was going to work, but it was much less clear on the failure than usual, I suppose because this is - a new one." 

It seems like some internal structure made it through, initially, but then it kept piling on more rabbit on top of that.

<New failures are very valuable!> And now he can look at the schematic and try to figure out what was hooked up wrong.

Leareth gets the next rabbit's setup ready while Cayaldwin is doing that, leaving the uncertain connections dangling - they'll stay there for now - and hopping back to see if Cayaldwin is ready to suggest the next attempt. 

He spends a while diagramming in the air and then has a best guess.

Which they can try! Leareth takes Cayaldwin back with him to watch as he tries the new best-guess arrangement. He feels with his now-better-trained but not entirely reliable Foresight. Uncertainty. It doesn't feel like it's definitely not going to work, at least. 

He triggers the demorph. 

The rabbit demorphs into a rabbit and then stops demorphing. As a rabbit. The construct-setup in z-space is swinging wildly and incredibly mangled.

Leareth hops back into normal space, pulling Cayaldwin along with him. Looks at Cayaldwin. Looks at the rabbit. Tries to assess whether the rabbit is behaving like a normal rabbit. 

It is not comatose or anything. It seems pretty freaked out.

Morphing probably feels weird, especially magically forced morphing? Leareth waits to see if the rabbit calms down and starts acting like a normal rabbit.

After a while the rabbit starts to nibble some lettuce.

"That...seems promising?" Leareth says softly. (As though saying it loudly will break the spell.)

Tail-swish tail-swish - <I think it worked.>

Leareth is kind of giddy. "I - think so? We should check." Leareth paused, "We should check again. For caution."

<Yes. - also we should see what happens if you detach the z-space machinery entirely. It is fine if that doesn't work but if it does then you could re-give them morph afterwards.>