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

13 lights in her sisters' and mother's bedrooms were turned off. She had
left the window open, as she often did. Sometimes I'd come by and do her
homework for her. I don't know why. Some weird desire to stay in touch
with my old life, I guess.

I flew silently, with the ease of long practice, through her open window
and landed on her desk.

She was sitting in the dark with one of those little book lights on so
she could read. She put down her book.

"Hi, Tobias," she whispered.



"Something has happened," she interrupted.



"Someone has come around asking about you."

My heart missed about a dozen beats. When it started again I had to gasp
in air.

Rachel rolled off her bed. She was wearing a long sports jersey of some
kind. It's what she wore to bed, I guess. I didn't recognize the team
colors or the number. I was never very interested in sports, and now
that whole thing means nothing at all to me.

She flicked on the dim lamp beside her bed and came over to me.

"Some lawyer. He says he was your father's

14 lawyer. And he's also representing some woman. She says her name is
Aria. She says she's your cousin."



Rachel shrugged with that impatient, "What are you, an idiot? Pay
attention!" way she has. "Who cares what her name means?"

or father?>

"I didn't exactly cross-examine her," Rachel said snappishly.

I laughed. Don't ask me why, but Rachel being cranky always makes me laugh.

"This comes secondhand," Rachel clarified. "From Chapman."

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