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No. I wasn't. "Yeah. Yeah. Bad dream, I guess."

"About her?"

I swallowed hard. "Yeah."

Dad sat on the edge of my bed and hugged me.

I returned the hug weakly. Patted him on the back.

"I'm okay, big guy," I said. "What time is it?"

3 "About time to get up and get going," he said. "I get the shower
first. I have to be in early today."

I watched my father leave the room. But instead of getting out of bed
and heading downstairs for a bowl of Honeycomb, I sat amidst the
tangled, slightly damp bedcovers, too exhausted to move.

My name, as you probably know by now, is Marco. And that was how my
Friday started. Not the greatest way to greet the last day of a long
week. But not exactly uncommon. Dreams of fear and loss and despair.

Before I lost my mother to the enemy, before I learned of the Yeerk
invasion of Earth, my life was pretty tame. Mostly I worried about
things like whether I'd dropped enough hints at dinner about which Sega
disk I wanted for my birthday.

Not about things like the enslavement of the human race.

Those were the days. Or, as Dad says, "The salad days."

I'm not sure what that means exactly - "salad days" - but he says it a
lot. I'm not a big fan of salad myself, unless it's heavily croutoned.

Anyway, here's the rough sequence of events. I'll keep it brief.

My mother - my beautiful, pretty-smelling, intelligent mother - took our
boat out late one

4 night and never came back. They found the boat. They didn't find her.

She was presumed drowned. With no explanation of why she had done such a
strange thing like take the boat out alone. At night. I mean, my mother
was not exactly the suicidal type.

Next. My friends - Jake, Rachel, Cassie, and Tobias - and I had the
distinct misfortune to stumble upon a dying Andalite warrior prince who
told us about the Yeerks and their invasion of our planet. He gave us