"Applegate, Katherine A - Animorphs - 17 - The Underground" - читать интересную книгу автора (Applegate Katherine A)

16 down through the murky, salty river water. The man was ten feet down,
waving his arms madly, thrashing and blowing bubbles and looking terrified.

I moaned. river bottom! Cassie and Marco! Come on, we're supposed to be
waterbirds, right?>

I dove straight down into the water.

What a cool feeling. One minute warm air, the next second, cold water.

Then not so cool. The water didn't soak into my feathers, but it did
make it impossible to flap my wings. I guess I'd assumed I would sort of
fly underwater. Wrong. Eagles may dive and snag fish swimming near the
surface, but that does not make them ducks.

I yelled in thought-speak.

Marco said.

Cassie said.

I was already changing. Any time you morph, you have to pass through
your true body on the way to another form. So there I was, a very wet

bird, already feeling my lungs burn, underwater and being swept away by
the current.

I morphed as fast as I could. Being terrified always helps.

17 As soon as I felt my human arms and legs beginning to appear, I
fought my way toward the surface. I saw that shimmering, silvery barrier
between air and water above me and I used my mutating limbs - feathery,
half-bird, half-human stumps - to swim up and up toward air.

I stuck my face up out of the water.

"Aaarrrgghhh!!" someone screamed.

"Oh, my lord, what is it?"

Some people in a little motorboat. I guess they'd been listening to the
music from the Planet Hollywood.

I sucked air and went down again.

"I think it was a dead body!"

Thanks, I thought. / hope that's not a prophecy.

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