"Applegate, Katherine A - Animorphs - 28 - The Experiment" - читать интересную книгу автора (Applegate Katherine A)

know about you. The word comes from the Andalite's tail blade, which
looks something like what you may know as a scorpion's tail. A shorm is
someone you would trust to put his tail blade against your throat.

Even though Tobias does not have a tail blade - or hooves, stem eyes,
and fur, the way Andalites do - he is almost one of us. Elfangor was his
father, and, as strange as it is to think of, I am, in Earth terms,
Tobias's uncle.

But I think it is the fact that he is almost as unique on this planet as
I am that makes us close. Choosing life as a red-tailed hawk has set
Tobias apart from everything he once knew.

We are both unique on this planet, and both very much alone.

There are times at night, as I search the dark sky for the home star,
when I think about my real people, my family. I think about a life that
might have been very different from the one I am living now, here on a
distant planet, far from everything I once knew.

The others, Prince Jake, Cassie, Rachel, and Marco, all have homes and
families. Only Tobias and I do not. Tobias lives in a meadow that is his
territory. And I, until recently, did not even have that limited amount
to call my own.

5 But now I have made my life a bit more cornfortable. I have
constructed a sort of scoop - what we Andalites consider to be a home.

Like any scoop, it is mostly open, with only a small area covered by a
semispherical roof. And in my case the scoop had to be very small so
that I could fold the roof down and erase all visual evidence of it.

I had only a few things in the scoop. A World Almanac that my friends
had given me. A photograph of a delicious cinnamon bun. Some human
clothing. And one other thing only recently acquired. One very important
other thing that has changed my life.

A television.

television. Or as most humans say, TV.

Ah, yes: TV!

I never expected it to be so compelling. At first I thought it would
only be useful. I would watch the behavior of the humans on the flat,
square screen and listen to them speak. When I am in human morph, I need
to be able to seem entirely human.

But it is so much more than merely useful. It is a window into the human
soul. Technologically it is laughable, of course, but when you take into