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

I forgave Tobias for calling us idiots. When it comes to flying, he is
the expert. And it was a slightly tense situation.

"Aaaaahhhhhhh!" the man screamed so suddenly I nearly lost my grip. He
was staring right at me, his left eye maybe an inch from my right eye.
He seemed like a normal-looking, middle-aged guy. Aside from the fact
that he was screaming in terror.

Cassie and Ax arrived. Both grabbed talon-holds. Marco was last and he
went for all that was left, grabbing the back of the man's suit jacket.

Tobias yelled. a level glide, but stay focused on the river!>

Six birds of prey clutched that man. He screamed. But he was falling slower.

He was definitely falling slower. Still too fast to survive a concrete
landing. But slower.

15 And he was moving forward. Foot by foot, he was moving toward the
water's edge.

Down we dropped.

Forward we edged.

I wanted to giggle. It was like some bizarre geometry problem. The sum
of the squares of the angles . . . would we make it?

The ground rushed up at us. Cars zipped by at sixty miles an hour below.
Then a strip of grass. Way too close! We were no more than fifty feet up.

Water's edge!

Tobias cried.

We released. The man dropped. Freed of the weight, I went tumbling,
wildly out of control, through the air. I flapped, I spun, I flapped
some more, and by a miracle, I righted myself.

Oh. That's what Tobias had meant by "snap-back."

ZOOOOOM! I blew across the surface of the water, so low my breastbone
surfed the tops of the swells.

Wings full again, I caught enough headwind to soar up. that was SO cool!> I exulted. Then I felt guilty.

I wheeled around and looked for the man. He was not on the surface of
the water. I peered

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