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

a shrew. There a vole. And all the many lit
tle birds.
They were all meat to the owl. I could de
scend, silent and deadly, on a rat or rabbit,
spread my talons wide, and strike.
I could squeeze my talons until they burst the
skulls of my prey and
...
no. No, I told myself. I
was not Tobias. He had no choice but to be a
predator. I had a choice.
Like my father had a choice. He could just
not
move. And then I wouldn't have to make this
awful decision. If he knew
...
if he understood
everything
...
he wouldn't do this. He would un
derstand that I was part of the battle to help save
Earth.
But
I couldn't tell him. Not even my dad. He
could be one of
them.
That's what knowing about
the Yeerks does to you. You look at everyone and
wonder what's living inside their brains. Even
though I felt like somehow I would just know if
my dad were a Controller.
I guess I've always had a close relationship
with my dad. Right from the start, going back as
far as I can remember, we were always doing
stuff together. I mean, I have this photograph of
me when I was three years old, standing on a balance
beam, with my dad holding me up and
grinning at the camera. I love that picture, even
though I look lame in the outfit I had
on. I keep it on my desk in my room.
When my mom was pregnant with my littlest
sister, Sara, .1 overheard my parents talking.
My
mom was saying maybe this time she would have a boy. "I
know you've always wanted a boy," she
told my dad.
"Oh, come on," he answered. "That was years ago.
I thought I had to have a boy to do all the
fun 'dad" stuff with. But I have Rachel. She's
as