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"It's okay, Ax," I said. "I think."

Tobias said.

Marco nodded. "I don't know anyone else who can just stop time whenever
he wants. Unless it's that new math teacher."

"So where is he?" Rachel demanded.

"Wherever he wants to be," Marco muttered darkly.

We had encountered the creature - or creatures, who could tell? -called
"the Ellimist" several times. He (she, it, they) was to humans and
Andalites and Yeerks what humans were to ants.

9 I felt like an ant right about then. Small and powerless, with a
couple hundred kids frozen around me. It was like they'd been videotape
one minute, a still photograph the next. It felt wrong to look at them.
Like I was some kind of peeping Tom.

I met Cassie's gaze. Her dark eyes were cautious, but not scared. The
Ellimist had never hurt us. He'd helped us, always while pretending to
do nothing. Or at least by living within his own incomprehensible set of
rules.

One of the kids stood up. I jumped about two feet in the air.

It was this girl named Beth. No one else moved. Just Beth. She smiled at
me, at us, and I knew right away.

"Yes, it is I," Beth said.

"The Ellimist?" Cassie asked.

Beth nodded.

"Where's the big voice and the quick-change bodies and all?" Rachel
demanded.

"I have chosen this form for a reason," the Ellimist said in the girl's
voice. "I come today on a humble mission. I wanted a humble form. One
that would not evoke feelings of dread or awe or reverence from you."

He spread Beth's hands wide, palms up. He moved away, and I saw that the
real Beth was

10 still frozen in her seat. The Ellimist had not taken her body, just
her image.