"Applegate, Katherine A - Animorphs - 05 - The Predator (2)" - читать интересную книгу автора (Applegate Katherine A)

I have flown through the sky on my own out stretched wings at more than
a hundred miles an hour. I have been a dolphin locked in deadly battle
with sharks. I have felt the awesome power of the tiger, and experienced
the terrible loss of self, the emptiness and horror of becoming an ant.

It was the gift of the dying Andalite. A power ful weapon for us to use
in resisting the Yeerks.

It was also a dangerous, deadly curse. Like any weapon, I guess.

And now I was preparing to become a cock roach. It would be the ideal
way to infiltrate The Sharing's new headquarters building. The leader-

6 ship meeting was in a couple of days. I wanted to be there. But the
Yeerks had grown cautious lately.

They knew we were out here. They believed, wrongly, that we were a group
of Andalite war riors, but they knew that morph-capable enemies were
hunting them. Opposing them. Hurting them.

Sometimes hurting them very badly.

Tom. My brother. Could I destroy my own brother?

"You don't have to make that decision yet," I said aloud. "All you have
to do now is try out this roach morph."

All I had to do now was become a cockroach.

7 Cockroaches are not my favorite animals. But I knew a cockroach would
be ideal for pene trating a guarded building. Roaches can go any where.

You may have noticed that fact.

I put my dog, Homer, out in the yard. I closed the curtains in my
bedroom, making it dark as possible.

"Oh, man, the things I do with my spare time," I muttered. I thought of
calling Marco and asking him to come over. Marco is my best friend. He's
the one who actually came up with the word "Animorph."

"No," I said. "Do this yourself."

The others were all tired. We'd had a rough

8 time lately. Too many close calls. We needed a rest. Time to deal with
normal stuff, like school. Our grades had been suffering since we'd be
come Animorphs.

Besides, this had to be my decision. Tom was my brother.