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iv For Michael and Jake

1

PI,

My name is Rachel.

You want to know my last name? Too bad. I don't give out my last name.
No offense. I'm not trying to be difficult or "too cool." I'm just being
careful.

Here's the situation. Earth, our little blue and green planet, the one
with the fluffy white clouds and all, is under attack.

It's not under attack like in some World War II documentary or
something. Or like in Star Wars. It's more subtle than that. Not a lot
of explosions and ray guns or whatever. In most wars, I guess what
people are after is control of land or territory. Or at least they want
to ram some idea down some other person's throat.

2 In this war, our enemies don't care about land. They don't care about
ideology. They don't want to take over our capital city and raise some
flag or whatever. They want us. They want our physical bodies.

They are called Yeerks. They are a race of parasitic slugs. Like
tapeworms or something. They need to live in the bodies of other