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

After all, he wasn't a Yeerk.

The Ellimist calmly walked through several rows of chairs and the bodies
in them. Simply passed through them like they were air. He stood in the
space between the front row and the stage. Down by Tobias. Ax came up
behind him, moving with the unnatural, liquid grace Andalites have when
they are preparing to fight.

Andalites don't like the Ellimist. He's a figure from the scary stories
they tell around camp-fires - or wherever.

I gave Ax a little look, just a "take it easy" look. He relaxed about
three hairs.

"Okay, so you're just a regular girl," Rachel said sarcastically. "No
big show, aside from the fact that you froze time and all."

"This is as humble as I know how to be," the Ellimist said. "I come to-"
he hesitated, "I come to tell you a story, and to see how you will
choose to react."

"Oh, good, a story," Marco said. "Is it a musical, too? Will there be
any hakuna matata involved?"

You have to understand: It's not that we weren't scared. We were scared.
But we'd been scared by people who wanted to kill us. This was

11 just "creeped out" scared. We ate "creeped out" for breakfast now.

Beth's face smiled. She had braces.

"I will tell you a story. You will tell me the ending."

12

The Ellimist looked down at the girl's hands. "Once we had hands. Not
much different from these." He smiled. "But that was a long time ago.
Almost a billion of your years.

"We evolved as all living things do, some faster, some slower. We were
among the first sentient species, but we evolved slowly. Still, given
enough time, even slow change can become profound. Back when all Earth
could boast were a few simple single-celled animals, we were beginning
to watch the night sky and understand the movements of our own planet.
We learned and we grew powerful. By the time worms first crawled in the
mud of Earth, we were traveling in faster-than-light ships. And when the
first dinosaurs

13 walked we ... we had become much as I am today."