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

vii Yes, the Yeerk had died there, in that head, my head. It had been
right then as the Yeerk disengaged and began to crawl out of me, right
then as death closed its jaws around the Yeerk, that the eye had found me.

It had seen me.

And I had seen it. Then, and again in my nightmares. Again and again.
And each time it spoke that single, voiceless word.

"Soon."

1

My name is Jake.

Who am I? Sometimes I wonder.

I'm a kid, a middle-school kid, a kid with classes to attend and
homework to do and friends to hang with and parents. I am just an
average kid, at least on the surface. Normal. Boring, even.

I'm not especially good at school. I do okay. I'm no great athlete. I'm
not some kind of genius. Just a kid. If you saw me at the mall you
wouldn't think there was anything remarkable about me.

But there is.

Swimming around in my blood is the DNA of

2 dozens of animals. Birds, insects, mammals. The DNA floats there,
encapsulated, waiting for my own mind to call it up.

And when I do - when I ask the DNA to go to work - it does, in the most
amazing and impossible way. It transforms me. It changes me into the
animal. Into the bird or insect.

I shrink or grow. I lose or gain strength. My limbs, my organs, my face,
my eyes, all change. I become that creature.

My own mind continues to function. I am still me, but the animal mind is
in there with me, too. And it functions, too.

So, anyway, about now you're thinking, Oh, he's psychotic. He's
delusional. He should be in a rubber room with an IV dripping tranquilizers.

I'm not crazy. It's real. It happens. Not just to me, but to my friends:
Marco, my main man; Rachel, my cousin, the war goddess; Cassie, the girl
I care about more than I do myself; Tobias, the friend I couldn't save
from his own bizarre fate; and Ax, an Andalite, an alien.