Kisses are so great! "If you ever want a tail for keeps you know where to get one."

"I would never dream of sourcing my tails anywhere else." He reaches down to trace Cam's.

It winds around his hand. Cam has pants, why does he have pants. Now he still technically has pants but they are over there instead.

What an improvement! 

Meanwhile:

"I don't remember all the details about Leerans, I could go get my notes - you could come along, Andi will have better perspectives on a few things."

"Sure."

Upstairs.

Zap.

Chip Elves don't spontaneously die, though Lisrat 118 thinks they probably won't last that long. He emails the remaining soul Elf asking her to drop by 2011 at her convenience for a magic interactions test. 

"You need Cam and Minor and Amriac out of the way and then you can probably stop the worlds where the rest of their personnel are located and proceed without interference everywhere else in the multiverse."

"Orik can probably get Minor, although he said Cam would be more difficult. Should we wait for him to discuss Amriac or do you have an angle on her?"

"I do not. Where's he -"

"Distracting Cam."

"If we can't infest Cam we can probably arrange for him to be summoned gagged to a world we are subsequently pausing."

"Oh?"

"Ganymede's wanted to arrest him for a while, I would just need to manufacture some non-conjurable complaint, tell them we were wrong to think we could contain him and are dismissing him. Or we could try to arrange our own summons, drop him in the ocean, but that requires more direct action on our part and does not work if he's already suspicious - relatedly, any moment one of them could notice that conjuring for things written by the people known to them does not turn up things they have just seen written by those people -"

"I believe dismissing him at all will arouse some suspicion."

"So arrange for six hundred circles, warn Ganymede that we learned he's been Imperiusing most of the people in contact with him - hopefully they won't even give him a trial -"

"Yes, he's already been tried and sentenced, they might view themselves as simply taking over his sentence under a different protocol."

"I will encourage them to see it that way."

She nods. "My understanding is that you will need to avoid the redmages - infesting them isn't even a viable option, although Imperiusing them may be. I believe I can get Kestil into Miranda for training data and from there if she proves to turn into a daeva get Minor."

"The redmages are our only means of contact with Godspring - oh, no, there's also their servant, though they'll notice if we take her."

"They don't seem likely to have any protective factors against the Imperius."

"Timothy couldn't cast it on more than a few people or maintain it while asleep, don't consider it a scalable resource, but to force the door occasionally it should suffice."

"And they have nothing to prevent us from keeping them under house arrest otherwise once we have more people." She counts the Yeerks remaining in the thermos. "Might need to make another trip."

"Should be possible to clear the room for you."