"One of my host's alts is at this moment writing Revelation authorities to inform them of the existence of your world, it may be too late to stop him but if it's not it might be worth preventing, should you wish in the future to operate in Revelation. The Revelation authorities are also a potential avenue to neutralize Cam since infesting him seems likely to be intractable."

"If it is not too late to stop him how can you best do that?"

"Go downstairs and request the door to some other world, whichever we have the most plausible reason to urgently visit, internet access is enabled by keeping the door open to Revelation. Alternately I could ask Cam to do something which would be impossible while holding the door but he is likely to find that unusual behavior when there is a message to urgently send. Tell the Elf that I'd appreciate it if he looked in on Andi. If I am wrong and this does prompt spontaneous death Ister can make a fork from before we infested him."

"I can ask to consult on how my world is presented, and you can use that opportunity to distract Cam."

"I expect that to be unremarkable."

"Kestil, for the time being your job is to park here and assume anyone uninfested who comes by should be stunned and infested; if in doubt thoughtspeak me."

"And then once the immediate danger is past we find out what happens if I die?"

"If you die gloriously for the advance of imperial knowledge and possibly become a considerably more valuable asset, yes."

"Yes sub-Visser."

Downstairs they go. His alt is still composing his message, not especially hurriedly.

"Hey um if you're describing my world as a radioactive hellpit full of brain slugs I maybe have feelings about that, can I look over your shoulder before you go telling everybody?"

"I want to consult you for accuracy before I contact them anyway, but the relevant features for them are 'are there new capabilities they can expect daeva to start manifesting' and 'are wait times going to get even worse', the radiation hasn't even come up. Do you have a chiplocked computer yet -"

"No, uh, and no idea how it'll interact with morphing, like it wouldn't kill me 'cause morphing's real good about that but I would wanna check with Cayaldwin to be sure it wouldn't extrude out my nose next time I turn into a bug or something."

"Makes sense." He tilts his towards her. "Here's where we're at -"

"I'm a shapeshifter," he says brightly to Cam. "Want to be the test subject on whether daeva too can be shapeshifters -"

"I can't say 'test subject' is my favorite job description," says Cam. "You're not worried about your chip extruding from your nose?"

"I can't say I see myself turning into bugs much at all, really. New Bell's curious if my default Andalite form looks like Matirin, because his default human one looks like me, want to make me Andalite skin or something to acquire -"

"Yeah, sure. Here?"

"Morphing involves nudity, this would get me arrested. Our room?"

"Gosh, nudity." Upstairs.

"I shall insist you turn around and cover your eyes."

"I wouldn't dream of doing otherwise. You know, nudity to us human-psychology people is as serious as unbraided hair is to Elves!"

"And I hear Elves take that hair very very seriously! ...awww, handing out morph in Hell is going to ruin the market for Polyjuice, isn't it." Their room. He morphs Andalite. 

(The host is just barely collected enough to marvel at being an Andalite. Orik is utterly delighted. The senses are marvelous.)

He wags his tail. <Ooooh.>

Cam snaps a picture. "I probably can't tell Andalites apart but maybe new Bell has picked it up. I wouldn't risk morphing chip Elf if I were you, might be weird or make you forkable or both. You like having a tail?"

<Not with a knife on the end, if there were destructible people around I'd be terrified of slicing them up. I assume when I am a blue centaur thing I know what to do with it. But tails are very expressive.> He demorphs. Now he is a naked human. 

(Please don't, Timothy says. Doesn't affect any of your strategic goals, can say morphing leaves you feeling vaguely out of sorts, and it'll make him significantly angrier at you if you and your allies are unlucky -)

(Trying to figure out what you can get away with?)

(You can probably answer that better than I can. Just. Please.)

Naked human kisses Cam.