"Applegate, Katherine A - Animorphs - 11 - The Forgotten (3)" - читать интересную книгу автора (Applegate Katherine A)

A classroom like any classroom. Like the classrooms I used to attend. I
would have been one of the kids paying attention, but too shy to

4 volunteer. I was never very bold or aggressive. I was a bully-magnet,
to tell you the truth. The kid most likely to get pounded. The kid from
the home so screwed up that I ended up being shuttled back and forth
between aunts and uncles who didn't even remember my name half the time.

But that wasn't me anymore.

5 1 his is my life now. I accept it. And there are some very nice things
about being a bird.

Some very nice things.

Well-fed and full of energy, I flapped across the meadow, gaining
altitude the hard way - with sheer muscle power.

I swept above the trees and fought my way higher still. Out beyond my
own territory. Higher and higher. And then I felt the air billowing up
beneath me.

A beautiful thermal. A pillar of warm air that rose up from the ground
as it was heated by the sun. I swept into that warm air and it lifted me
up like an elevator.

I turned and turned within that warm current,

6 twisting higher and higher, till I was nothing but a speck to the tiny
humans on the ground. Up and up, till the only sound was the wind
ruffling across my feathers.

I caught a glimpse back down behind me. A glimpse of a strange creature
that looked like a blue deer at first. Until you saw the head with its
extra stalk eyes mounted on top. And the slashing, scorpion tail.

Aximili-Esgarrouth-lsthill. The only Andalite alive on Earth. My friend.
Or as much of a friend as you can be, when one of you is a Bird-boy and
the other is an alien.

I called down. He kept running. That's how he eats. He runs
across grass and leaves, and the crushed vegetation is absorbed up
through his hooves.



I flapped and glided and soared
till I was over houses. They were just little squares of gray and orange
and brown roofs. Tiny swimming pools glittered an unnatural blue. I saw

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