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as corny as it sounds, we are trying to help save
the world.
It began months ago. The five of us just hap
pened to hook up together at the mall. It's not like we
were a group, really. Not before that
night.
Jake's my cousin, but we never hung out together much.
Jake's sort of in charge. It's not something he ever
asked for; it's just that he's good at dealing with
responsibility. He's the kind of person you
automatically turn to if there's a crisis. And
probably the best thing about him is that he can tell people
what to do without ever
sounding bossy.
"Since when don't you want to tell the same story
twice?" Jake teased Marco. "I've known you
to tell the same tired jokes eighty or ninety
times."
"It's your own fault," Marco said. "If you would
just laugh the first time, I wouldn't have to
keep telling them."
Marco is Jake's best friend. He's smaller
than
Jake, funnier, darker, more skeptical. But his
suspicious nature makes him very good at seeing
beneath the surface of things. And as much as he whines and
complains about the dangerous
situations we get into, he's still there in the worst
of the fight, still making dumb jokes.
Marco has changed lately, at least a little. He
doesn't resist being an Animorph like he used
to. I don't know why. Maybe it's because his dad
fi
nally seems to have gotten over the death of
Marco's mother. I don't know.
"Hey, look! Over by that tree. See? A baby
skunk with its mother." Cassie, of course. No one
else would notice, or get excited over,
skunks.
"Let's run right over and pet them," Marco
said.
Cassie laughed. "I've handled skunks plenty
of times and never.been sprayed."
"Yeah, well, that's you, Dr. Doolittle."
Cassie has been my best friend forever. I have no
idea why. No one does, because we seem like
we would never get along. Cassie lives on a
farm. Both her parents are veterinarians. She
spends