Nods all around.

Morph.

Morph all around.

Would they like to acquire an Andalite.

Sure why not.

And then they can all go home.

Peka comes by later with Apef.

Who can also get morph.

"Thank you," says Apef. "For this and the spaceships thing."

<You are welcome.>

Cene is ready to begin decontamination-by-morph, in stages. Families with small children will be waiting till their kids are old enough to get them right.

Matirin goes to Cene. 

They set him up in a nice botanical garden which is undergoing enough construction to be closed to visitors and not overmuch inconvenienced by an alien in the most open section, although for logistical reasons they wish to have him handle the cube for the reds in a different location.

Yep, they agreed on something airtight for that so no one could morph and flee. He is appreciative of the botanical garden.

They have an airtight building and valve-style construction so no one is ever in an environment the wrong level of cleanliness for them! They have volunteers of various hair colors who will be providing small blood samples for people who want those colors, batched appropriately.

Then Matirin can activate the cube for reds who are sent by for activating!

They shuffle in. The first batch is mostly single young people. They do not particularly know that they are supposed to conceal it from Matirin if they can't walk very well or something. (That one is going yellow.)

Hopefully morph will fix that one. His tail might swish more but he certainly isn't going to comment.

It does. The hair color donors are all healthy and people are borrowing from them as needed to turn up capable and younger and appropriately morphed.

Oh good. And Cene's all set up to provide them with new artificial skin which isn't contaminated and so forth.

Yup. Off they go into the world!

Isel thinks personally hosting them would go over badly - she can't pick her staff, here - but she arranged them temporary housing and dropped off groceries.

They appreciate it! They hit the job market. They take a while (some people seem oddly prejudiced against Anyone Looking For A Job Right Now) but eventually acquire paychecks and move out.

Oh good. She writes the red community regular updates about the Cene government's attitude towards their plan (they are still committed to going through with it; they have mostly barely paid the results any attention; one of the blues who wants to own a big chunk of the capitol asked about their candidates for future fiancé, the facilities are adequate to decontaminate everyone, they are safe.)

The arranged-marriage candidates interact online a bit, determine if they want to go through with it. Some of them do.