andalite Elves land in Amenta
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Matirin does not himself indulge but he doesn't tell his people to cut it out either. <I think this world would be a popular tourist destination in peacetime.>

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"We'd be delighted to have you."

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<Before we were so delightfully sidetracked I was inquiring about the Mioleen synopsis of recent history ->

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"Oh, yes. I expect their rendition was not inaccurate, though it might have been impolitic; do you just want an independent summary or do you want to corroborate specific points?"

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<I'd love to hear your account of it all.>

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So she goes over the Antiam perspective on the Transition Era.

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Tails swish at the mention of the massacres.

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"Oh, yes, it was horrible and completely avoidable with our procedure, or even just more conservatism."

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<I do not think I understand the problem with the reds. Is it something we'd experience just from the Amentan instincts, if we saw one who hadn't been through your procedure, or is it learned?>

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"I - assume you'd experience direct instinct related to the things reds handle, but knowing that they're associated with reds out of context is I think learned."

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<That makes sense. I should at this time demorph; there is a recommended upper bound on time spent in morph, beyond which there can be complications in demorphing.>

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"Of course."

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Andalites re-Andalite! Some different Andalites morph Amentan. 

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 - one of the greens scurrying around the spaceship turns and blinks at a few of the Andalites.

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The Andalites don't notice.

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...he sends Aitim pictures.

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...he notices.

 

"Uh, Isel -"

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"There is one girl Andalite because apparently they do jobs off gender and grey is male - well, soldiers are male, dance is female - it sounds pretty stupid honestly but - take a look at the one girl Andalite in Amentan form -"

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"And have a look at the boy Amentans." Picture picture picture picture -

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" - okay. Weird. - you should dye that color for diplomatic conferences it's, uh, demonstrative -"

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"I have no desire to signal 'I am the commander of a people who have been at war a really really long time' and it probably loses some of the effect by not being true."

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"So they claim their morphing thing goes off touching people and getting a morphological - whatever - but actually they are morphing into a specific family of Anitami blues and greens - what do we make of that - in that case why are they touching people -"

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"I have no idea but I think I'll line the pictures up and take it to the council." And he does that.

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