"Applegate, Katherine A - Animorphs - 26 - The Attack" - читать интересную книгу автора (Applegate Katherine A)

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where they should be, twisted up and hidden beneath the surface of things.

open war, at least. The conflict would have to be carried on by
different means. No longer a savage battle. Now it must be a chess game.
There would be rules. Limits.>

Floating across our field of vision, like distorted TV pictures, were
flickering images of our own interactions with the Ellimist. The times
he had played a role, though never a controlling one. When he had shown
us that we could escape Earth and live on a sort of game preserve for
endangered humans. And when he had used Tobias to help some Hork-Bajir
escape to found a free colony.

And when he had twisted time to return Elfangor from his happy life,
hiding as a human, to a world of struggle, pain, and ultimately death as
an Andalite warrior.

Elfangor, who was Tobias's true father, and the one who had given us our
powers.

Each time, we saw the Ellimist limiting his involvement,

20 refusing to do a billionth of what he could do.

absorb humans and later be absorbed by some still more vicious species.
But Earth is not the reason I have come to you now.>

The show was over. We were back in the auditorium, not that we'd ever
really left, I suppose. And the Ellimist was a girl with braces again.

"For millions of years we have played our game," the Ellimist said. "And
we have lived within the rules, more or less. But now war threatens
again. There is an impasse. A species I will not let Crayak take. A
species he will not let me save. This species occupies a unique location
in space-time. It is a turning point, and if Crayak can annihilate them,
his power will grow, his goal become much closer, his forces become more
deadly than ever."

"Including the Yeerks?" I asked.

"Yes, including the Yeerks, who will benefit from changes I cannot
explain to humans - or even to mighty Andalites," he added with a
gentle, steel smile for Ax.

Tobias
asked.

21 The Ellimist said, "I will finish the story. And you will decide."

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