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

"We were lucky," Jake said. "No one happened to snap any pictures of a
pack of raptors carrying the guy to the water. And no one happened to
wonder why a dolphin would be so far upstream from the ocean."

"The man was lucky, too," Cassie said.

Marco shook his head. "No way. Lucky would have been getting
mouth-to-mouth from Naomi Campbell."

"Where are the cinnamon buns?" Ax asked. "Tobias said he would get some.
Cinnamon buns. Bun-zuh."

Ax was there in his human morph, of course, since the sight of an
Andalite hanging around the food court would have attracted just a
little attention. But the real Ax did not have a mouth. Did not have the
ability to make spoken sounds. And worst of all, did not have a sense of
taste.

So when he morphed to human, he tended to become fixated on taste and
sounds. Especially

21 taste. And especially, for some strange reason, on cinnamon buns.

"I wonder what happens to George Edelman now?" Cassie asked.

"Who?"

She rolled her eyes at me. "The guy. The man. The man whose life you
saved, Rachel."

"Oh. Is that his name?"

"Yes, it was in all the newspaper articles," she said, exasperated with me.

I shrugged. "Okay, okay. So his name is George Edelman. Big deal."

Cassie leaned across the table. "Rachel, you saved this man's life.
Without you the rest of us wouldn't have seen him in time. Without you
he'd have been a splat on the concrete. You are a hero. A human life was
saved. He may go on to cure cancer or something. And you don't remember
his name?"

Now that she mentioned it, I did feel like maybe I should know the man's
name. On the other hand .... "Hey, wait a minute. This guy isn't
anything to me," I said. "It's not like I'm responsible for him."

Marco made a back and forth gesture with his hand. "I don't know. Isn't
it the Chinese who say if you save a man he becomes your responsibility?
Or maybe it's the Japanese. The Greeks? Someone. I saw it in a movie."