"Applegate, Katherine A - Animorphs - 24 - The Suspicion" - читать интересную книгу автора (Applegate Katherine A)

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Go forth, mighty warriors! Go forth into space! All the galaxy shall
tremble before the Helmacrons. All will obey us. All will be our slaves.
For only we are truly worthy to be Lords of the Universe.

- Posthumous Exhortation of the Emperor. From the log of the Helmacron
ship, Galaxy Blaster

My name is Cassie.

There are a lot of things about me that I can't tell you. My last name,
for example. Or my address.

I live in a paranoid world. I wish I didn't, but I do. And I have no
choice but to conceal, to lie, to mislead. Even while I am desperately
trying to tell the truth.

2 You must know the truth. You must accept what is happening to Earth,
to humanity. Because only by knowing can you fight the terrible evil
that is upon us.

I am referring, of course, to the Yeerks.

Not to the Helmacrons.

The Yeerks are a parasitic species from a far-distant planet. They
originate in an aquatic environment. A Yeerk pool. At some point in
their evolution they moved out of the safety and sensory deprivation of
the pool and evolved an ability to enter the brains of a species called
Gedds.

For a long time, millennia, maybe, they were content to go that far.
They did not know about space travel or technology at all. Like humans,
they did not know of the existence of other species in the galaxy.

At least, that's what our Andalite friend, Ax, tells us. I'm sure it
would be fascinating to study the evolution of the Yeerk species. Kind
of like it must be fascinating to study cholera or typhoid.

Study with care. Because as far as humans are concerned, the Yeerks area
disease. They are spreading throughout our population.

They enter through the ear canal. They have the ability to thin out
their bodies, displace the portions of the inner ear that are in the
way, and

3 drill into the skull. There they flatten their bodies out, sinking
into the crevices on the surface of a human brain.