The Yeerk has weird Yeerk instincts and they know how to handle this. Makel slithers. (Makel is lonely. He reminds himself that Peka is right here.)

She is right there! She is curious what he will do with her. It's such a weird concept, almost porn plot really. It did not hurt, which is surprising. She loves him.

<Porn plot would make it less gross somehow - not sure how, it's kind of gross all through -> He moves her hands. He takes a step back from Matirin. He moves her mouth. "Would you stop it with the tail twitching, it is a scary tail."

<I apologize.>

"If you have murdered people with that tail you should not tell Amentans about it. Unless you took a really long shower right after."

<It's not a common conversational topic at home either. ...why would the shower help.>

Makel-as-Peka giggles. Makel-as-Peka tries singing notes too high for him to hit them normally.

She has a pretty high range!

Eeeeeeeeeeee! Matirin heroically refrains from tail-swishing and after a while Makel sits down to write on a piece of paper 'test for important Andalite military thing'. "- it's weird to imagine being grey in a species that doesn't even have voices."

<My younger brother is not grey, he is blue, the most common color for Andalites.>

"- he's a soldier, though, right, not a politician. Someone did explain to you how Amenta does it? When I say he's grey I don't mean the fur."

<It sounds very restrictive and inefficient and ill-considered.>

"They've done lots of considering." He tries to allow Peka to move her hand so she can write things.

She doesn't notice, since she wasn't trying to move her hand.

<You should be able to write things now, I think.>

Oh. She writes. Testing testing this is Peka.

"There you go," he says to Matirin, "all set?"

<Yes. Thank you.>

"Sure thing!" <Should I un-enslaving slug or should we take advantage of the porn plot opportunity?>

<I think the entire point of this porn plot is that that's up to you!>

<Gosh.> Off to a Milliways room he goes. One of Matirin's stalk eyes follow him bewilderedly.

Peka would giggle if she were driving.

<I love you,> Makel says fondly, and then, having removed some clothes, <ooooh, that's interesting - is that what it feels like when ->

<Mmhm! I love you.>

When he gets tired of that he unslugs so they can have a go at being Elves.