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"Hey, Erek," Marco said.
"What's up?"
Erek shrugged, exactly like any other young
human of his apparent age. "Not much. Just something
strange. Something that doesn't make sense. At
least not as far as we can see."
Prince Jake nodded. He looked up at
Tobias. "Are we clear?"
Tobias dropped from the branch he was on,
flapped his wings, and soared above the treetops out
of sight.
"Sorry," Prince Jake said to Erek. "I
want to be sure we're safe."
Erek made an amused grin. "Do you think I
came alone? Three of my people are spread out around
us, keeping watch. Tobias will never spot them,
not even with his eyes."
"Oh? Want to put some money on that?"
Prince Jake asked.
Tobias flew back and landed on the same
branch. He began to calmly preen his feathers.
8All clear.";
"You didn't see anything at all?" Prince
Jake asked, sounding disappointed.
8Well, I saw two Chee projecting
tree holograms, and another one trying to pass
himself off as a rock, but nothing to worry about.";
The humans and Erek all laughed.
8I know these woods,"; Tobias said
smugly. 8ally think you can just park some big old
holographic willow tree where it doesn't
belong and I won't notice? Puh-leeze.";
Erek did a sort of bow toward Tobias.
"Remind me never to underestimate you, brother
hawk." Then, suddenly serious, he told us
what he'd come to say.
"The second-ranking guy in the Secret
Service, a man named Hewlett Aldershot the
Third, is in a hospital in a coma. He was
hit by a car while walking across the street. We
don't know why he's here in this area. But we do
know this: No one even knows he's in the
hospital."
"His family doesn't know?" Cassie
said.
"No. No one. Not his family, not his boss,
Jane Carnegie. No one. The hospital is
heavily infiltrated by Yeerks. Half the staff
are human-Controllers. His name isn't even in
the hospital computers. And, oh, by the way, the