With the tether held steady the generator can mostly catch up, and the power requirements aren't increasing further, and there's a bunch of weird stuff going on in random corners of the z-space pocket but that was true with the rabbits too, and didn't break anything.

The morph finishes.

Leareth holds it until everything has stopped moving, and then leaves the spell-tether attached and hops back to the material plane, looking over (a bit wildly) at where he left a bird helpfully holding still for him. 

There is an Andalite, very disconcerted, huddled on the ground with his tail wrapped around himself, not moving.

Leareth starts to reach for him, then stops himself. He could call for Matirin, but probably the soldier doesn't want his commander to see him like this, Andalites are weird about that...

Leareth quickly demorphs from his human composite-morph with extra Gifts, and morphs Andalite, and then lets himself approach. <Are you all right? Everything appeared to go smoothly from where I was watching.> 

<You have my deep gratitude. I do not think I am injured. I - should have asked that we do this elsewhere.> Twitch. 

<I can Gate you elsewhere right now.> Leareth...would kind of prefer not to, he's very tired, but he can. <Where would be better?>

<I just want to - reacquaint myself - so I don't startle anyone.>

<I know a place where there will not be anyone around.> Leareth absolutely cannot do a Gate to Velgarth right now, the north had been his first idea, but he knows of some unused fields not more than a few miles from here, and that Gate he can manage. He has it up within thirty seconds, and tries to figure out if the Andalite needs help getting through. <Are you mostly just unused to your body, do you think?>

<Yes.> He stands up and walks through the Gate, but there's something wrongbadoff about all of his body language, it is deeply viscerally upsetting to the Andalite instincts, it's like watching something that shouldn't be.

Leareth firmly tells his Andalite instincts to shut up and ignores them, and stays close to the other Andalite– he has to catch himself, remember that he's not, in fact, actually the same species. 

They're in an abandoned field of tangled longish grass, flattened by recent rain, with a line of trees off to one side and cultivated farmland visible in the distance through that fence. There are absolutely no people in sight, or within a mile around according to Leareth's Thoughtsensing-in-morph. (It's Vanyel's Thoughtsensing, which has better range than his own native Gift.) 

He reaches for Matirin with Mindspeech, to alert him that it seems to have worked but he's going to be offsite for the next few candlemarks, watching for side effects and giving the Andalite some time to adjust, it was understandably a pretty weird and disconcerting experience. 

Matirin sends congratulations.

The wrongbad Andalite lies down again for a moment on the grass, then moves his tail, cautiously.

Is that why everyone seemed so uncomfortable the first few times he morphed Andalite, before he knew how to move in this body? It's very obnoxious. 

Leareth stays nearby, watching and trying to be reassuring, ready to reach in with Fetching if the Andalite seems about to hurt himself by accident. And - right, he has Mindhealing Sight in this morph, it'll be a lot more informative on him than on a rabbit. He checks discreetly whether there seems to be actual damage, there, as opposed to just disuse. 

It looks like just disuse, and discomfort with attempting to reuse it while he knows his body language will be wrong. He gradually moves less cautiously. Stands back up. Walks around cautiously, eating some grass.

The one upside of having loud terrible Andalite instincts yelling at him is that Leareth can provide feedback and encouragement each time he notices incremental improvements on the uncomfortable-body-language front, while also keeping very neutral unbothered affect about it. 

He spends about an hour grazing, occasionally moving his tail, his body language getting steadily less wrong-bad. He acknowledges the encouragement but says, somewhat bemused, that Leareth does not need to stay.

<I am too tired from that to do more magic right now anyway> Leareth explains. <If I stay here then nobody will ask me for things. Also I promised Matirin I would monitor for side effects, since that was hard to determine with rabbits. Are you feeling normal other than being out of practice with your body?>

<Yes. I do not think there are any side effects and I am very grateful.> A bit stiffly. His motions are getting more fluid, though.

<I am glad. If you would prefer privacy now, I can go walk a bit that way, I just prefer not to do an extra Gate.> 

<Does it...not bother you, when I walk wrong?>

<Not especially, at this point? The Andalite morph does have that instinct, but all sorts of morphs come with distracting instincts and I am used to ignoring them when they are unhelpful - honestly, my human body comes with instincts such as fear of heights which I ignore - and it is unhelpful right now to be disturbed by it when instead I can use it to give advice.>

Also he's nonzero worried about the Andalite's safety if he just leaves him here, probably nothing dangerous will happen but he would end up wanting to keep Farsight on him the entire time anyway. 

In that case the Andalite will keep working on feeling comfortable in the body he hasn't had in a month. It mostly comes back to him fairly quickly, even if he's very self-conscious of the bits that don't.

Leareth tries to be helpful and also very matter-of-fact and calm about it. Eventually he has to demorph before running into his time limit; by this point he's feeling a lot readier to do another Gate. "Are you ready to go back?" he says out loud. 

<I am. Thank you.>

Leareth Gates them both back to the base. Looks around with Thoughtsensing for Cayaldwin, who should have Mhalir today, Leareth was planning to Gate Mhalir back tonight but may want to beg off on more Gates until tomorrow morning. He really needs more mage-power for the setup, and maybe some kind of spell to help with stabilization, although that sounds really hard, realistically he'll have to do it himself for a while before a less-flexible spell can be made safe.