"Applegate, Katherine A - Animorphs - 23 - The Pretender" - читать интересную книгу автора (Applegate Katherine A)

through the abandoned construction site.

That's where we saw the damaged spacecraft land. That's where we met the
doomed Andalite prince. Elfangor.

It was Elfangor who told us that our lives as we'd known them were going
to end. Had already ended. He told us about the secret Yeerk invasion of
Earth. An intimate invasion by the parasite slugs who enter your brain
and enslave you.

And it was Elfangor who gave us powers no one but an Andalite had ever
had before. It was Elfangor who transformed us with Andalite morphing
technology.

We gained the ability to touch an animal, absorb its DNA, and then to
become that animal.

Yes, to become.

I morphed a hawk. I overstayed the two-hour time limit. I was trapped.
Trapped in the body of a red-tailed hawk.

Trapped in a world where another bird can be a dangerous enemy. Trapped
in a world where I must kill to eat. And not like humans do, where they
hire someone else to draw the blood and shatter the bone and then get
the food in sanitized plastic packages at the supermarket.

6 I must kill my own food. I must swoop down and drive the sharp talons
into the brain, into the neck. I must feel the heart stop beating.
After. . . after I have already begun to feed.

That's what the name Tobias means. For this Tobias. For this one,
strange, unique creature.

Movement!

Just a slight twitch of a single grass stalk. I looked at my opponent.
He had not seen it.

This kill was mine.

I opened my wings, caught the breeze, and swooped down low across the
reaching wildflowers and waving yellow grass.

Swooooosh!

I saw the flash of brown. I saw the small rabbit. I was intensely
focused. I was electrified.

It happened in seconds.