"You should render your host morph-capable anyway; it'll explain your presence. You can't think of anything?"

"Can't persuade him straight, could roll him back a ways and persuade him from there but he's not vulnerable to Hazel's mind-affecting magic and not expected to be vulnerable to amnestic drugs either - an instance of the Arda pseudodeities Melkor or Sauron could do it but we're not especially positioned either to get to them or to negotiate with them - greenmage maybe but securing access to Godspring's going to be challenging - would you prefer I justify these points, sub-Visser -" Circle. He hands the pen off to Kestil.

"That suffices." She gestures.

Kestil completes the circle.

Ister appears.

"Hi! I have another project, want to go under for it?"

Beam. "Yeah."

"The proposed deal is a few hours of work in exchange for spending same under the Imperius curse, summoner, you have to affirm it -"

"Yeah, I affirm that."

"Imperio."

Kestil proffers the Thermos.

"Checking first if it's possible involuntarily -" he'd like Ister to hold it to his ear but not do anything else -

Failure.

Sigh. "Now obliging him to try to allow the Yeerk passage -"

Success! "This is weird, take the spell off," he says.

"You think you can hold him without?"

"Yeah."

"That technically breaks the deal between Ister and Kestil, I don't know if you could renegotiate for him, I can make him renegotiate and then remove it?"

"Yeah okay."

He'd like Ister to agree to do whatever they want indefinitely in exchange for the honor of being a host to a Yeerk.

Ister, being under the Imperius, says, "Yes," shorty followed by "that was him not me we're good."

"I have removed the spell. Do you require guidance on efficient demonic forensics -"

"Yeah, Ister doesn't know how."

"There are six soul Elves presently in Milliways. For each - I'll give you names - you're going to conjure a scale model of the Elf and their immediate surroundings, scaled so the Elf is a couple inches tall, made of plastic. Start with Mingling, the alt of my host -"

And Ister conjures.

Mingling's with his parents in their little house. Another soul Elf who's been taking Ganymede shifts is out among a bunch of the chip Elves, singing. Midnight is in Fredrick's room and Findekáno is in his.

" - my recommendation, sub-Visser, is that you kill the ones in their rooms and in the house, infest the human present in that room - he's another wizard - and wait to see if the one among the chip Elves leaves - if she does not, perhaps take one of my Elf alts and have him order her somewhere without witnesses. For Ganymede, we can Imperius a fairy, send them to pick the ones there up, kill them on the return trip. Doing that is probably preferable to waiting for them to return of their own accord and walk into the bar at an unpredictable moment - my host doesn't know how they're scheduled -"

"I accept your recommendation. Inplen, can you carry the first segment out without being detected?"

"Yeah, host's busy being way too into this, he won't yell."

"Go."

Inplen picks up the thermos and goes.