<I want to smuggle you all out and onto a boat to Miolee. It's the only way I can think of to get you all there safely. I got the morph technology from the aliens and I can teach you how to morph. Do you have questions so far ->

"...what about the other neighborhoods -"

<I'm going to get them too, we're going to coordinate it, we're not doing it right now. I don't even have a boat lined up yet. We will coordinate to do it everywhere simultaneously.>

"Weren't we supposed to stay till we'd trained people."

<Yes. If you want we can still try that, but my priority is your lives, not Rivik's garbage delivery. If we don't see a safe way to train people then we leave without training people.>

"But then no one else will hire you."

<Yeah. It'd be great if we can think of something. But letting you die isn't something.>

"...thank you. How do we do it?"

<I have a box. Everyone who touches the box gets morphing ability. Kids can't do it, I'm going to tell the government I'm sending the kids to Miolee in advance to get your cooperation with training. If you want, anyone else who doesn't have outward-facing jobs can sneak out then too, keep the kids company. They should only be separated from you for a month, and I'l make sure you can video call every night. Then, if you think you're safe during training, we start training. Do you expect you'd know if they were imminently going to kill you?>

"Not necessarily."

<So then whenever you want - which can be 'right away' or 'wait until training is done, if we think they'll kill us all at once afterwards', you all morph something small - it'd probably be easiest to do cockroaches or something and then get carried to the boat, but I'd understand if it felt safer to do birds and try to fly to the boat - and then we head out to Miolee. And probably leave the districts on fire so Rivik isn't quite sure what happened.>

"Why is roaches easier -"

<Don't have to worry about people getting lost in flight or eaten by actual birds or losing track of time and taking more than their two hours to reach us.>

"...we don't actually know how the alien thing works."

<-  right, sorry. You can turn into anyone you've touched and 'acquired', including people and animals and aliens but not plants. While you're morphed you are clean. If you stay that way for more than two hours you get stuck and can't change back. If you're a bird, you'll know how to fly. When you're in morph you get supplemental telepathy - like this - so you can communicate with people. The range is pretty short, though I think the aliens can stretch it. If you die in morph you die, but if you're merely injured you can change back and will be wholly healthy.>

"We don't have any birds..."

<If you want to be birds I will look up the best species of bird for it and then go get one and bring it to you.>

"They might notice a lot of birds leaving here -"

"I don't think roaches can travel long distances easily though -"

<They can't, the idea with that one would be that you all get into a suitcase and I carry it to the boat. If the birds leave at night would anyone notice?>

"Maybe not."

"I don't want to be a cockroach."

"The children'll be so scared."

<Yeah. If you've got a better plan I'm all ears.>

"I could maybe catch a mouse. They bite though."

<Some people could morph clean Amentan and take the train to the shore but probably not that many of you, maybe just ones who'll be particularly ill-equipped to escape in morph.>

"You said we'd have to touch people."

<Uh huh. You can get a blend of two people by touching both of them and then trying to morph a mix, you should be able to get purple off me and one of your friends.>