"Applegate, Katherine A - Animorphs - 02 - The Visitor" - читать интересную книгу автора (Applegate Katherine A)

squeeze in through the ear and take over what was a
free human being.
There are five of us. Just five: Jake,
Cassie, Marco, Tobias, and me. Marco
came up with a name for us, for what we are now. He
called us
Animorphs.
I guess that's as good a name as any for what we
are. Mostly, I still just feel like a nor mal kid,
you know? But I guess normal kids don't turn
into elephants or bald eagles. And normal
kids don't spend their free time fighting to save the
world from the nightmares called Yeerks.
That day, the sun was bright. It warmed the earth
below us. Warm air rose in an invisible bub ble,
a thermal. The thermal pushed up beneath our wings and we
circled higher and higher and higher, till it almost
seemed we could touch space.
Somewhere up there in cold space, up in orbit,
was the Yeerk mother ship. Perhaps right over our heads.
The Yeerks were parasites. In their natural
state they were just big slugs who lived in a sludgy
pond called a Yeerk pool. But the Yeerks have the
power to take over other bodies. They have enslaved
many races throughout the galaxy -- the Taxxons, the
Hork-Bajir, and others. And now they had come
to Earth, looking for more bodies to control.
Who was there to try and stop them? Well, off
in space, there were the Andalites. But the An
dalites were far away, and it would take them a long
time to come to rescue the people of Earth.
On Earth, no one knew of the Yeerks. No one
but five kids who were having fun being birds and
riding the thermals.
I looked over at my friends. Some were a little way
below, some were higher up. Jake was flap ping his wings
a little more than the rest of us. He had adopted a
falcon morph. Falcons don't soar quite as
well as hawks or eagles.
Tobias was the smoothest flyer. That was partly because
red-tailed hawks are natural acrobats.
Partly it was because Tobias had much more practice
flying than the rest of us.
Too much practice.
less-than 0kay, Tobias, you were right. This
is the coolest thing in the worldeagreater-than I said.
less-than Want to try a dive? It's
amazingeagreater-than he said.
I wasn't exactly sure that I wanted
to dive, but what could I say? I don't usually