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

5 Now you know. Now you see what we Animorphs are up against.

And now you see why we really didn't need a second alien invasion of Earth.

I mean, isn't one enough?

6

O Great Emperor, the Most Wise, the Most Farseeing, we have at last
found a planet ripe for conquest! It is a very large planet, filled with
very large species. But the larger they are, the lower they will be
brought, as they cringe and tremble before our unstoppable might!

- From the log of the Helmacron ship, Galaxy Blaster

?Cassie, what are you doing?"

I stood up, feeling the ache in my back. I was

in the bed of my dad's pickup truck. I had just

lifted a somewhat rusty bicycle up there to join

the rest of the stuff we were giving away. I wiped

7 the sweat from my forehead and looked down at Rachel.

As always, she looked like she'd just stepped off a page of Mademoiselle
magazine. Rachel is the only person alive who could be run over by a
bus, buried in a mud slide, and thrown two miles by a tornado, and
somehow emerge from it with perfect clothes, perfect hair, and perfect
makeup.

Sometimes I swear it's something supernatural.

Whereas I had spent the morning mucking out the stables, giving a
suppository to a very annoyed Canada goose, and then collected giveaway
stuff for a run to Goodwill. And I looked . . . well, I looked like I'd
been run over by a bus, buried in a mud slide, and thrown by a tornado.

"I'm working," I said grumpily. "Maybe you should try it sometime."

Rachel wasn't at all offended. "I just have two words for you, Cassie:
Ralph. Lauren. It's one thing to wallow in dirt, but do you have to do
it while wearing boys' jeans from Wal-Mart? That's why we have Ralph
Lauren. For the outdoorsy types."

I slid down to the ground. Then I grabbed a dirt clod near my feet.
"Come here. I just want to see if it's even possible for dirt to cling
to you."