"Applegate, Katherine A - Animorphs - 32 - The Separation" - читать интересную книгу автора (Applegate Katherine A)

16 "Thanks. I got it at Abercrombie? It's, like, on sale? Forty-two
fifty marked down to twenty-seven ninety-five."

"No way! Are you going to the mall after school?"

Okay, so I should go straight to meet Tobias after school. That's what I
should do. I had promised. Only . . .

But did I want to go be with Tobias? Or did I want to go shopping?

Would Cassie go shopping with me? She didn't like shopping very much.
But she might go. I could, like, ask her. But what about Elizabeth?
She'd asked me already. Only I didn't really like Elizabeth all that
much, and I did like Cassie. Only Cassie might not want to go shopping.

And Tobias! He'd be so sad if I didn't show up.

But if I showed up he'd, like, want me to morph and all, and it was so
scary, flying, way up in the air with nothing holding you up - oh my
Gawd! I couldn't believe I ever did it!

"So?" Elizabeth asked.

"What?" I asked.

She shrugged. "Forget it."

17 JL hooked up with Tobias at his meadow.

He saw me coming and swept down out of the sky, fierce, wild, a thing of
dangerous beauty.

"I haven't seen Jake. Don't worry, he'll get word to us if there's
killing to be done. Ha! Anti-Morphing Ray! You have to admire the
Yeerks: They never stop trying. They never stop trying to take us down!
Now, let's fly!"

I began to morph. My bird-of-prey morph is the bald eagle. It's only
fitting. Nothing against hawks, but eagles are bigger, more dangerous.
I'm sure if Tobias had it to do all over again he'd get trapped as an eagle.

18 The bad part of morphing to eagle is the shrinking. You get smaller.
A lot smaller, and your first thought is, Hey, smaller is weaker and no
way I want to be weaker!

But then you feel your weak, useless human lips harden and push out and
out, forming the wicked, yellow, downturned, ripping, tearing eagle