"Applegate, Katherine A - Animorphs - 05 - The Predator (3)" - читать интересную книгу автора (Applegate Katherine A)

all her free time in the Wildlife
Rehabilitation
Clinic her dad runs in their barn. They save in
jured animals.
Cassie is very into animals, but she's not one of those
animal lovers who can't stand people.
She just thinks of humans as a different species
of animal.
Then there is Tobias. Back when all this started,
Tobias was barely an acquaintance of Jake and
Marco, although I kind of knew him. He was a
sweet, poetic kind of guy. The kind bullies
love to pick on. He used to have messy, out-of-
control hair and dreamy eyes that always
seemed
to be looking at something no one else could see.
Used to
...
Now he has fierce, angry eyes that look through you
like laser beams. Now he has brown
ish feathers, and a white chest, and a reddish
tail, and cruel-looking talons, and a wickedly-
curved beak.
Tobias was trapped in a morph. Now, he's a
red-tailed hawk. A predator who lives on
mice and rabbits and sometimes other birds.
I still see him as sweet, gentle Tobias. But
he
has been a hawk for a long time now.
The gift of the Andalite, the power to morph, is a
wonderful weapon. But like any weapon, it
can destroy those who use it.
less-than Here he comeseagreater-than Tobias
called down in the thought-speak we use when we are in
a morph.
less-than like think he sees us. greater-than
I heard the sound of fallen leaves being
stirred, a faint drumbeat of pounding hooves on
pine needles.
Then, with a leap, he cleared a fallen tree
trunk and landed a few feet away from us.
Aximili-Esgarrouth-lsthill. We call him
"Ax"
for short. The sole survivor of the destroyed An
dalite Dome ship. The only living Andalite
on
planet Earth.
Ax is the brother of Prince Elfangor, the
Andalite who warned us about the Yeerk invasion and
gave us the power to morph. Prince Elfangor,