...he kind of just wants to dump the entire memory of the last several hours of his soul searching into their brains but that would probably be rude or something?

[also I think Yvette did not inherit the background processing of plantlike communication methods that you and I have]

Wait she didn't?????? The fuck kinda discount independent planting did Conrad even do there????

The shittiest kind!!! The absolute shittiest kind!!!!! He was terrible and she told him so!!!!!!!

Nai can probably braindump on Zash, and have him translate for her though? But she might also be able to process it all if he needs to dump it on her, it just might take her a bit. It certainly wouldn't hurt her, she did fine while saying hello to all of his (and that's the flavor, his and Zash's) sisters. She thinks she's doing pretty well at this, thank you very much.

...okay yeah if she can handle them she can handle this and Zash can translate what's needed.

Okayyyy that was a lot Zash'll need to think on that a bit.

Yvette actually manages to reply faster than Zash. Nai sent over a lot, but a lot of it was really only important for his own personal growth, not on 'here is what we are going to do about it' level? Which can be safely shelved for later perusal. It's interesting and important, but she is absolutely accustomed to sifting through large amounts of data for what is relevant to taking action. That is a skill she has cultivated her entire life.

So, if she's understanding this correctly, he... wants them to directly, tangibly prove that they can in fact have humans working with plants without killing them horrifically. Because then he wouldn't need to be Knives in order to keep his sisters alive, he could just work with them and they could claw their way to a world that is acceptable. Does she have that right?

...yeah, basically. No rigging the game, though, no grabbing only hand-picked amazing humans (which apparently EXIST, he guesses), he wants scalable systems that are robust to bad actors and people trying to exploit the system and cultural erosion and all that.

Wait hold on the other stuff there is important!

Sure, and she’s not discounting it, and will pick it apart later, but the crux of the issue is definitely over the genocide. So if that’s squared away, they’re basically set!

And, yeah, that all sounds extremely reasonable, and in fact was the sort of thing she was trying to make with her problem solving and his sisters. She’s down, unrigged scientific test for the fate of humanity, sounds like the fairest thing possible. Probably multiple concurrent tests to properly verify the results, actually, humans are inconvenient about not being predictable and whatnot.

...no. Well, yes, but in the sense that if even a single one of them fails the deal is off—

Come on that's a bit extreme—

The whole point is that whatever they come up with has to be able to withstand anything. If it works with some humans but not others then it doesn't work.

He’s defining ‘fails’ as ‘humans in their set up experiments kill one of his sisters,’ correct? Because, again, totally fair if he’s assisting in setting up the systems with the sisters he’s saved! That tangibly makes it a mistake to even try to work with them. And also kills valuable irreplaceable sweeties that are beautiful and precious and almost perfect except for how bad they are at self care. Which, to be clear, she does not want to allow to happen regardless.

Yeah. Yeah, that.

Mrrr.

What. What is it Zash.

Nothing. He doesn't want to ruin this. He does agree that if that gets rid of Knives then most of the problem is gone.

…. Well there’s still the problem of the humans outside of their setup horrifically killing plants, that still needs to stop. But the problem between the three of them would be (mostly) sorted. Which is the most important part, she thinks.

And Nai is willing to commit the plants in his jurisdiction to this test? Because it’s much easier to set up functioning systems from the start, instead of wrenching something into correctness against the force of societal momentum. She doesn’t think doing this without his help is possible without a lot more death, of plants and humans alike.

So long as she's aware that he's going to rip the plants out and come back to February if it looks like the humans are about to kill them, yeah he's fine with that.

Absolutely, and in fact she agrees! She was thinking that the plants would get shuffled out of the humans’ ability to interact with them before it even got close to that. Specifically, swapped out with a more robust and healthy sister to pick up where she left off, while the first recovers here. Relatedly, she would want him to be able to keep an eye on things the entire time because guardian of the plants, she understands that he wouldn’t trust that with anyone else.

Acceptable.

Well that was easier than he'd expected. Kind of anticlimactic but he did not want something big here.

...he supposes it was, yeah. It could have been much, much, much worse.

Nai eyes Zash (psychically) with some scepticism but decides not to chase down the thing Zash is trying to bury a lot there.