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

I focused on morphing a dolphin. I had the DNA inside me, and I'd
morphed dolphin before.

Now I was an eerie mix of human and dolphin. Gray rubber skin and legs
melted together to make a tail and hands that were turning into flippers.

I powered back toward the poor suicide guy. Although by now I wasn't
feeling sorry for him, so much as really annoyed. I mean, what is it
with people killing themselves? How big a moron do you have to be not to
figure out that at least if you stay alive you have some hope, as
opposed to being dead and having zero?

18 Besides, I was missing the fashion show.

He was a weird apparition as he loomed up in front of my dolphin snout.
He had sunk up to his thighs in the mud. He'd fought his way partly out,
but was still in the goo up to his knees.

And now he was limp, motionless. But I knew he sure wasn't going to die
if I could help it, the stupid, inconsiderate jerk.

I buried my snout in the small of his back, bent him backward till he
was practically lying on me, and kicked like mad with my dolphin tail.

He came up with a shloooomp sound and a cloud of disturbed mud. I pushed
him up to the surface and nosed him to the riverbank.

Strong human arms reached for him and yanked him up onto dry land.

Very strong human arms.

19 Wel, that's just classic," I complained the next day as we all hooked
up at the mall food court after school. I had USA Today. I had our local
newspaper and a bunch of others. Every one of them showed the same
picture. And they all had basically the same headline:

Schwarzenegger Real-Life Hero: Gives Mouth-to-Mouth to Drowning Man

One paper said:

Terminator Becomes Resuscitator

20 "This society is way too celebrity-obsessed," I said. "It is so
superficial."

"Yeah, I hate that," Cassie said. She gave me a mocking look. Cassie
thinks I'm too concerned with looks and clothes. Cassie is my best
friend and I would give my life for her, but you should see what she
wears. For Cassie, dressing up is putting on clean jeans and socks that
actually match.