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of their careers.

23

We sat through the rest of The Lion King. Seemed kind of dull after the
special effects show the Ellimist had put on for us.

As soon as it was over, we were out the door. There was supposed to be a
final partial period, but half the school was blowing that off, so we
did, too.

We met at Cassie's barn, also known as the Wildlife Rehabilitation
Clinic. It was a slow week at the clinic, I guess. Many cages were
empty, which is rare. It made the place seem kind of forlorn.

Tobias was there waiting for us. So was Ax, in his weirdly attractive
human morph. He

24 demorphed back to his own self. It didn't take any time at all for
the conversation to start.

"This is nuts!" Marco said as soon as Tobias assured us that no one was
lurking within earshot. "The most powerful creature in the galaxy, a guy
who could make Earth disappear by just thinking about it, needs us to
fight his battles for him?"

"Like we don't have enough to deal with?" Rachel agreed.


Ax said.

Tobias said.

Rachel shot him a dark, angry look. "He's tricked us before, too. Told
us one thing and done another. We know nothing about him. We don't know
if the Ellimist is one guy, or more than one. Half the time he says
'we,' then he says 'I.' So why is he the Ellimist? He jerks us around
whenever it suits him, and he tells us squat."

I knew what she was talking about. Tobias had thought the Ellimist would
return him to normal. Instead he merely gave Tobias back his morphing
powers.

But that had not been a lie or a trick. Not really. He'd promised to
give Tobias what he

25 wanted. He had. It was Rachel who couldn't accept that Tobias had
chosen, and still chose, to remain a hawk.

"Why does 'Howlers' sound so familiar?" Cassie wondered. "I know I've

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