Move 18 Recap

Outside medical: Alaric, Fluffy, Crowned-With-Eyes, Mikodez, and Sulen

Fluffy and the mothling Crowned-With-Eyes escape Mikodez' grasp. Sulen drops the drugged drink they are holding to grab at the mothling, who evades them. (They deeply regret the mess.) Alaric, startled, allows his null calendrical field to flare. Mikodez restores Fluffy to her cage, discusses the properties of voidmoths with Alaric, and gives the black Andan fabric to Sulen, who uses the fabric to trap the mothling. A puff of glitter that Mikodez had previously dumped on Crowned-With-Eyes materializes from nowhere. Alaric films the excitement on his lokwor.

A nurse threatens to call security if Mikodez and associated creatures don't stop making noise. Mikodez pleads for information about his "cousin" Istradez, to no avail. He then asks Alaric for information about other moths; Alaric suggests returning to the ship, to place the mothling in the prepared "moth biome". Sulen instructs Alaric to check on the injured Imsayed (Istradez); he complies.

Mikodez asks Sulen, "Will you use your Rahal powers on the moths?" Sulen is confused. They ask Mikodez how they obtained the moth. Mikodez states, "I found it hiding in the display supplies when I got back to the visitor quarters," which is technically not a lie. After some discussion, Mikodez holds his pack open and Sulen returns the mothling and the fabric to it; Sulen does not observe the other contents of Mikodez' pack.

A few minutes later, Alaric sticks his head out of the room where Istradez is resting, and tells Mikodez, "This is hospital, keep your voice down. And go flag down a nurse to get a hover chair and discharge paperwork."

Gerae's room: Gerae and Virmad

Gerae thanks Virmad effusively, and tells him, "I was starting to fear that I'd be left here to starve to death... It's been a harrowing few weeks. I honestly was starting to think my luck had plunged me from bad to worse."

Environmental and Engineering: Sasha and the Moth; messages from Ashari and Yehan

Sasha goes to Engineering to find some shop rags. She sings to the moth; the moth hums back. While cleaning filters next door in Environmental, Sasha teaches the moth to sing a Kirrish round. She intercepts a complaint from Ashari about the noise. She then messages Yehan to ask for suggestions on communicating ideas about noise level to the moth. Yehan suggests, "Can you get it to understand an X-Y coordinate system and then associate the x-axis with time, the y-axis with amplitude?" Because amplitude is typically measured on a logarithmic scale, Sasha teaches the moth high language notation for logarithms.