A pleasure to meet you, Lapis Lazuli! [Temeraire is eighteen tons of wholly genuine exuberance at meeting this strange alien.] I am indeed a rescuer like you. I hardly think it is right for anybody to go about kidnapping others so that they might play music for you; and less so to change their memories so they cannot tell who they are.

Tell me, are you of the same people as Shep? Only you are blue like he is, so I must wonder.