"Applegate, Katherine A - Animorphs - 11 - The Forgotten (2)" - читать интересную книгу автора (Applegate Katherine A)

without fear are just insane. I have plenty of fear in my life. Some
days I feel afraid from the minute I wake up in the morning till my last
nightmare at night.

2 But the thing about fear is you can't be afraid of it. I know that
sounds confusing. I guess what I mean is, be afraid if you have to,
right? Fear is like this vicious little worm that lives inside you and
eats you alive. You have to fight it. You have to know it's there. You
have to accept that you'll never get rid of it, but fight it just the same.

Brave isn't about not being afraid. It's about being scared to death and
still not giving in.

That's all any of us do. Any of us Animorphs. We just try not to give in.

And in the middle of it all, in the middle of all the danger and
betrayal and fear, we try to hold on to what's normal and good. Have to
keep up with the homework. Have to be ready for that pop quiz. Have to
still listen to music and watch TV and maybe go to a movie.

You know what I mean? When you live in an insane world, you have to hold
on to the little things.

There are six of us. Five humans, one not-so-human. There's me; there's
Jake, my more responsible cousin; Marco, my personal pain in the butt;
Cassie, my best friend forever; Tobias, who was our first casualty,
trapped forever in the body of a hawk; and Ax, the only Andalite to
survive their mission to Earth.

It all began with an innocent walk through an

3 abandoned construction site at night. The five of us, minus Ax, were
minding our own business, heading home from the mall. No one was
thinking, Hey, let's get ourselves in the middle of an interstellar war.
I just wanted to get home, do all those normal things. Maybe watch TV.
Check out some Web sites. Listen to a favorite CD. Do my homework.

Whatever. Normal stuff.

But the damaged Andalite fighter landed right in front of us, and from
that point on, nothing was normal again.

We are not alone in this universe. There are billions of stars and
billions of planets. And on some of those planets, life arose like it
did here on good old Earth.

On some of those planets, highly intelligent life evolved. Just like
Homo sapiens - humans - evolved here. Out there in the stars, there are
races like the Ellimists who are so advanced they make humans look as
dumb as cows. Then there are races, like the Andalites, more advanced