"Nyeh," says Andi, sticking out her tongue, and she trots up the stairs.

And Bella goes out flying.

She thoughtspeaks Timothy, We're really curious if you'd wind up looking like Matirin in Andalite morph by coincidence like how he looks like you - there's no reason he should, he just mixed up some random humans. Andi's got the morph box in our room and I told her I'd send you. You can have Cam make you DNA samples later but I don't want him just copying Matirin's out of the box somehow, it'd fudge the experiment, so just go back for them after.

I don't think conjuration works that way but I'd be happy to get the shapeshifting, what's her room?

Well, like, he could make 'an Andalite', right? And it would have some genome, and I don't know how it picks if he's not aiming, so I want to minimize causal entanglement with existing ones. 2011.

"I am going to go become a shapeshifting wizard," he tells Cam, and kisses him.

"I think Niari might hate me," he says, drafting an email to explain the new world. "At least this one isn't an information security hazard - Cam, can you get the door -"

"Course." He gets the door.

In room 2011 Andi lets Timothy in and shuts the door behind him and stuns him with a shredder and twists open a Thermos and puts it to his ear.

He wakes up. 

He can't move. 

"No complications," his mouth says. "...not with this host, anyway, I hope Antren knows what she's doing -"

Shrug. "Seems to."

She morphs for thoughtspeak, then opens the window.

In flies an owl.

Which demorphs. "So, my assessment was that the Elves would spontaneously die if infested, does that accord with your guess?"

" - they're not an acceptable host species, I think they'd be dead within a week, but I don't think spontaneously, we would have a little room to work in. Your bigger problem is the telepath ones, my host's shouting at them right now and range is funny in Milliways but we're not necessarily in the clear - there're - six here now and two on Ganymede and we need them dead before we can do anything else -"

"Right. What's the best way to do that without being noticed?"

"Summon a daeva, Imperius or infest them - or both - have them do it -"

"Can you in fact use your host's magic?"

"Lumos." The wand lights up. 

"Marvelous. Is there a specific daeva who'd be good for the purpose?"

"He knows a demon whose Imperiused presence wouldn't be remarkable."

"Right. Kestil, you can do the honors, I want to know if we can be daeva too."

"That's a nice way to put how expendable I am."

"When you persist in the sister act away from witnesses you make it look like you need practice. I can replace you with someone who does not need practice."

Sigh. "Yes Sub-Visser. Orik can you do most of the circle since you've seen it done?"

He starts writing it out. "There's no particular correspondence between the amount of time passing here and the amount of time passing downstairs but if it's been a few hours downstairs Cam will probably come looking for my host and I cannot think of any avenue to infest Cam if daeva are not vulnerable natively."