"Applegate, Katherine A - Animorphs - 31 - The Conspiracy" - читать интересную книгу автора (Applegate Katherine A)

The Yeerks are more subtle than that. They aren't predators, they're
parasites. They don't want to destroy humanity, they don't want to make
big piles of bodies, they need our bodies in one piece to continue their
invasion.

See, they're basically slugs. Parasites. No arms, no legs, no face. Blind.

That's why they need host bodies.

They slither into your ear, seep into the crevices of your brain, open
your memories.

And you're still inside yourself while it's happening, trapped,
helpless, begging for the nightmare to end.

Only it's real. And it doesn't end.

You want to warn people and you can't make the words come out. But the
Yeerk in your head can hear them. It can hear your pitiful cries, your

4 impotent threats. It can hear you beg, Please, please leave me, please
get out of my head, please. . . . And it can feel you slowly
surrendering even the pretense of resistance.

The Yeerks are everywhere, using their involuntary human hosts to move
freely, to recruit new members into their cover organization called The
Sharing with promises of good, clean, wholesome family fun.

They're the ultimate enemy.

We've identified a few of them, though.

Our assistant principal, Mr. Chapman.

My best friend Marco's mother.

My big brother, Tom.

I know how the guys fighting in the Civil War felt, North against South,
brother against brother.

Living with the dark, ugly fact that if you met your brother on the
battlefield, he would kill you.

Unless you killed him first.

I know the real Tom is still inside himself somewhere, raging against
the Yeerk holding him hostage, begging for someone to save him.