ANIMORPHS #36: THE MUTATION
"kind of skanky for atlantis."
hi hello and welcome back to animorphs weekly, new hampshire’s sixth hottest roadside attraction. last week’s blog was bonkers, huh?
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YOU WON’T EVEN GET THE CHANCE TO CHANGE YOUR MIND. . . .
that’s exactly what an astrophysicist said about death by black hole. fun fact: it would just happen so fast we wouldn’t even notice.
i am not Jazzed to return to the ocean. on a normal day, it unsettles me if i think about it for too long. in an animorphs book? forget about it.
it’s a jake book!
SUMMARY
we jump RIGHT into action. jake gets a phone call from cassie at three in the morning. they speak briefly in code, and then jake is out the window, morphing into a peregrine falcon. as he flies to cassie’s barn, he ruminates on the ability to morph, thinking back to how they all got it, what they’re trying to do with it. he admits to us he doesn’t think they’re winning the war. if anything, they’re just staving off the final defeat until…until…?
he reaches cassie’s barn. inside, cassie is speaking with toby and jara hamee of the free hork-bajir. on a long steel table where cassie’s dad performs surgery (and where once cassie had to cut into ax’s brain) is another hork-bajir named hahn tunad. he is recently freed from the yeerks, but at a terrible cost. he’s dying.
we learn that visser three has been experimenting on the hork-bajir. he wants to get the pemalite ship that’s buried at the bottom of the ocean. (the last time he tried, he was stopped by the drode and the animorphs. book,,,,something. gold star to whoever remembers.) in order to do this, he took fifty hork-bajir and tried to go full TUSK on them by grafting fish parts onto hork-bajir bodies. the only difference is justin long survived that process, and these hork-bajir did not.
toby and jara were able to rescue him, and he told them visser three has crafted a “seagoing vessel” called The Sea Blade. but hahn is drowning on dry land. the other forty-nine hork-bajir experiment were eaten by taxxons. there’s no way to save them.
cassie, jake, toby, and jara watch hahn die. jake and cassie hold each other while toby and a sobbing jara hamee wrap hahn’s body and take him away.
chapter one!
the next day, the animorphs are back in the barn. rachel, of course, wants to go after the sea blade. the yeerks cannot be allowed to get their hands on pemalite technology! it would be bad! tobias argues they don’t know enough. well. what do they know? ax and tobias met with the hork-bajir and the chee while the others were toiling away in homeroom (which. i think is a school myth. i never had a homeroom. did you??). ax begins his powerpoint:
the sea blade is a vessel that can travel in air and water
most spacecraft can go underwater for brief periods of time, but this is different
the sea blade can probably cloak itself from radar
the chee located the pemalite ship
it’s in an area “designated as a navy firing range” with exploded and unexploded weapons
cassie whispers menacingly about sinking the sea blade and teaching the yeerks a lesson. what the yeerks did to the hork-bajir was fucked up. she’s not wrong, entirely, but marco points out that the animorphs aren’t necessarily in the business of “teaching lessons” or revenge. they’re just trying to hold their position. rachel, of course, is inclined to agree with cassie.
eyeball emoji
cassie thinks a morph with echolocation will be helpful in discovering the cloaked sea blade. they all have dolphin morphs—and giant squid morphs, though they’re all a little wary about getting back into those again. but! cassie remembers nike is sponsoring an orca exhibit at the gardens’ aquatic realm, SeaTown. the orca’s name is swoosh. cute.
well, jake says, time to put the plan in action. they’ll somehow acquire this orca DNA, have the chee take their places so they can stake out the yeerk pool around the clock to see the sea blade launch. marco makes dark jokes about getting blown up by bombs, rachel tells him to look on the bright side. maybe the underwater bombs will blow up the yeerks!
cassie wasn’t joining in the graveyard humor. “fifty hork-bajir subjected to horrible medical experiments,” she said. “that’s what this is about.”
:/
uh-oh
three days later, jake and marco are in bird morph, flying high above the yeerk pool and complaining about their upcoming math test. it’s a particularly sore subject for marco, since his step-mom is the math teacher. tough break, bud! they’ve got thirty minutes left in morph before tobias and ax arrive to relieve them of duty when—jake spots a disturbance in the force!
there’s a fence around an empty walgreens parking lot. anyone who’s anyone KNOWS there’s nothing valuable in the parking lot of a walgreens! unless—YES! his keen bird eyes spot it. a hologram!!!!
it’s the sea blade!!!!
it’s being lifted out of the yeerk pool into the air on a hydraulic car lift. when jake sees it, it’s black, seemingly draining the light from the sky. metal. nyoom! it takes off!
jake goes to follow! he tells marco to tell ax and tobias to follow him, and then go get cassie and rachel. we’re going in! flap flap flap!! jake flies as hard as he can, but his little peregrine wings are no match for the sea blade’s might. still, he manages to keep it in sight, running out the clock on his morph. as soon as they reach the ocean, the ship dips underneath the water. jake falls from the sky and demorphs.
i was jake. but not for long.
[csi miami scream]
he begins to morph into orca. i guess we’re just skipping over the part where they break into SeaTown and pet swoosh. whatever! he Becomes an orca and is a little disturbed to discover an orca’s mind isn’t that far off from a human’s. orcas have a concept of the past and the future, which is an absolutely mind-boggling thing. this is why i h8 animorphs ocean books: i’m learning facts i did not need to know! you’re telling me the orca knows about time?? no wonder it kills!
jake is aware that the orca is aware that it is not in control of its own body, which is a horrific sentence. he is the orca and yet the orca watches from within, like that margaret atwood quote about the male gaze. whale gaze.
click click! he begins to echolocate. the sea blade is ahead about fifty feet just…sitting there. suspicious! jake surfaces. he can’t really attack the sea blade without the power of friendship, so he waits. a navy plane flies overhead and drops a sonar buoy into the water. the yeerks are testing their new toy! jake goes back down and echolocates. he sees the sea blade—and then he sees the sea blade disappear, replaced by the shape and sound of a large whale. it begins to swim away!
at that exact moments, his friends arrive! jake points out the whale blade.
yes, that would be sensible, ax said. they not only hide, they create a false picture for anyone who does happen to notice them.
thanks ax
the pod swims behind the sea blade and are joined by two real orcas! it’s a regular party! rachel’s like, well, maybe we should, uh, ram that ship? jake’s like, oh yeah. good point. let’s go! they start barreling towards it. and then the sea blade whips around and starts barreling towards them!
TSEW!
dracon beam SLICES ONE OF THE ORCAS IN HALF, LIKE, AND I QUOTE, “A LOAF OF ITALIAN BREAD CUT OPEN TO MAKE A SANDWICH.”
VISCERAL
luckily (luckily?) it’s one of the real orcas. jake watches it sink towards the ocean floor. good for those bottom feeders. a feast is on the way. the sea blade keeps shooting. tsew! someone tells jake he’s been shot. at first he doesn’t believe them, but then he’s surrounded by blood. his own blood. the top three feet of his dorsal fin are gone. jinkies!
the sea blade swims above them and keeps firing. jake keeps getting shredded. rachel and tobias slam into the sea blade while jake drifts towards the bottom of the ocean. ax tells him he’s lost too much blood and needs to demorph; cassie is there to help him swim to the top. she has to walk him through his demorphing because he has to be careful—if he grows his human lungs back too early, the ocean will crush him to bits.
christ
jake panics. he doesn’t know if he can do it! he’s not cassie! she’s swimming as fast as she can but he still demorphs too soon. famously, there’s no air underwater, so cassie tells him to sip from her blowhole.
don’t
they make it to the surface. jake tells cassie to dive back under—he’ll be joining them in just a second. from below, he tells her, hit the sea blade from below. he takes a few breaths and then morphs orca again. he dives underwater. it’s chaos. blood and blubber everywhere. he gives the order: they’ll all have to attack it at once. they slam into it. for a second, it looks destroyed—but then the sea blade begins firing all its dracon beams wildly! every which way! more blood!!! jake commands everyone to the surface!!!
more chaos as they all swim to the surface and try to demorph. once again, jake goes too early, so rachel scoops him up in her mouth and spits him out. he goes flying. smacks into the water. world’s worst bellyflop. then, for a third time, he morphs orca. everyone’s there and accounted for, having demorphed and remorphed into fresh orcas with all their fins and blubber intact. jake’s like, okay. we go under, we make sure the sea blade is actually out of commission, and then we go home.
back under the water, they watch the sea blade drift towards a cave. at first, it seems silly. the cave mouth is too small for the ship. but then five vaguely human shapes swim out of the cave, attach ropes to the sea blade, and WHOOSH! the cave opens and they drag the sea blade inside! everyone has questions. how’d they do that? who were they? why do they want the destroyed ship?
jake sighs the long and beleaguered sigh of a hungover waiter staring down a brunch shift filled to the brim with baby showers and bachelorette parties. they’re gonna have to go into that cave. it’s back to the surface so everyone can demorph and remorph into hammerheads.
sometimes i hate my life.
mood
they’re tired. they’re exhausted. jake tries to take a bite out of tobias before he realizes what’s going on. they swim into the cave and it’s pitch black. it also reeks. marco’s like, hope that’s fuel. ax is like it could be fuel. or it could be waste. nothing says fun like swimming in the dark through tons of alien shit.
BONK!
they run into a dead end. ax can sense an electrical field just on the other side, so jake approaches and gently nudges it with his nose.
a thin horizontal line of light appeared in the center of the wall. …
the line grew to a rectangle. then to a square. about four feet by four feet. and then the square rounded to form a perfect circle.
brighter greenish squiggles of light pushed out from the flat surface of the circle and formed rotating coils.
psychedelic, tobias muttered.
too true king!
ax is like, this isn’t yeerk or andalite technology. and it’s definitely not human. all i’m saying is i KNOW if there are aliens they’re coming through the ocean. they will bypass us and go straight to the fish. i’m telling you!!!
the lights reveal an opening in the wall. single file, they swim through, and the wall closes behind them. on the other side, the water is thin, with land on either side. they demorph and scramble onto the bank. the cave feels gigantic. bigger than the yeerk pool, which is the biggest area they’ve encountered so far. as their eyes adjust to the strange, glowing, dim light of the cave, they begin to see what’s inside.
ships. huge ships. ships from all sorts of time periods, complete with dead sailors. marco immediately wants to turn around and go home. i don’t blame him! but instead, the animorphs press on, wandering through the cave. more ships from more time periods. they come across a japanese aircraft carrier from world war two. it probably has flares, and maybe weapons, so tobias finds a staircase and they all climb aboard.
everyone’s afraid and exhausted, but jake does take a moment to acknowledge the comfort that ax provides. being in human morph is unsettling, but he’s nearby with his tail. they find a hatch and slip inside, only to discover a large room with a platform and some maps. and a fuckton of corpses sitting in chairs.
cassie and ax approach the bodies to ensure they’re actually dead.
they are dead humans, ax stated. they have been preserved. stuffed with a substance i cannot identify without further, more detailed examination, and sewn up the back with a stringy vegetative material.
a halloween episode!
ax doesn’t know what culture would be responsible for this. because it’s so weird, he says, he has to assume humans are involved. good point! we love weird shit!
they all go back on the deck of the carrier. a seagull with unnaturally large eyes—adapted to the environment, tobias guesses—squawks at them and flies off. marco’s like uh, are we sure the sea blade is here? jake’s like, no, we’re not sure. but the mission remains the same. find the sea blade, destroy it, make sure visser three can’t find the pemalite ship.
they morph owls.
for miles they fly, discovering ship after ship after ship, complete with a taxidermy crew. the ships are from all time periods, all parts of the world. ahead, there’s a glow, a light in the far end of a narrow tunnel. jake pauses. either he can call the mission off and prevent his friends from discovering more weird and potentially dangerous shit, or he can risk the yeerks getting their hands on pemalite technology and all but guarantee the advancement of the yeerk invasion.
forward it is!
WHHHOOOSSSHHH!
they get sucked in through the tunnel!
woOAOOAOAOAOAOAOhhhh!!!! they go tumbling!!! cassie describes it like being stuck in a clothes dryer or a tornado, two experiences that i feel have to be very different. but what would i know?? i’ve never been in either.
okay. what fresh hell is this? tobias said dryly.
this is also what catelyn says when i buy her new cat food
but it’s not new cat food on the other side of the tunnel. no, it’s a city! a city made out of boat parts. a functional city, with dim lights and smog, stretching as far as the eye can see. ax spots the creatures from before. two adults, one child, wearing simple garments. i’m imagining rey’s outfit from star wars. they have blue skin, gills, and webbed hands and feet. also huge eyes.
jake’s pretty sure these creatures are currently stripping the sea blade for parts to build a new park or something, but better safe than sorry. as they fly, searching for the sea blade, jake thinks about how absolutely bananas of a find this is. he can see people walking along narrow streets below, some driving forklifts (certified!) or pushing wheelbarrows (old school). these people have been living underground for centuries. and they’re clearly dangerous. maybe those bodies were drowned when they were stuffed and sewn. and maybe not.
jinkies!
they find the sea blade tied up to a dock next to a bulky pyramid that towers above everything else. it feels very mayan to marco. they watch the hork-bajir controllers leave the ship, led by the blue-gilled people. (rachel dubs them “BGs” and tobias replies with, “weren’t they a group, like a long time ago?” take that, old people!) there’s no sign of visser three. maybe he escaped. maybe not. maybe he was never on the sea blade to begin with.
there’s only twenty minutes left in owl morph. whatever happens to visser three is out of their control. but the sea blade is destroyed, so their mission is done.
okay. we’ve seen enough. we’re out of here. let’s find someplace to demorph then remorph. then we go home.
sounds nice but there’s still 30 pages left
they fly away from the heart of the city and reach the outer fields. there are green, yellow, and aquamarine vines bobbing in the water. ax thinks they might be plants. before anyone can get super weirded out (too late!), jake gives the order to demorph. once they’re demorphed, they prepare to remorph to owls to fly out. then—yoink!
turns out they weren’t vines. they were a net! classic trap!
ten of the BGs slurp out of the water below and tie them up. they’re bumping into each other. it’s the dryer situation all over again, except this time it also includes hooves and fists and some dank weird cave-city water. ax tells tobias to stay out of sight via thought-speak and the BGs begin to carry the trapped animorphs away. rachel wants to morph grizzly, and marco agrees. ax offers to slice through the net with his tail, but jake’s like everybody just chill the fuck out!
except the animorphs don’t curse :/
they don’t know if the BGs are infested, nor do they know if they’re enemies or allies. jake wants to see what happens first. besides, they don’t know if visser three is around to witness their morphing. he’s a crafty bitch!
they get dragged back to the heart of the city into the pyramid structure. in the distance, they can hear a hork-bajir in pain. yoinks. the BGs dump them out of the net onto a cold, cement floor. but it’s not an empty room. it’s a throne room. five guards stand on either side of the throne, each armed with various weapons from different time periods: spears, handguns, bows and arrows, etc. on the throne sits a woman. she, too, has huge fucking eyes.
she greets the animorphs in chinese, scandanavian, german, and french before jake finally cuts in in french (he can speak french?) and asks if she speaks english.
“of course,” she replied arrogantly. “since the latter half of the twentieth century english has been considered the international language of commerce and intellectual discourse on the surface.”
eurocentrism strikes again
she identifies herself as queen soco of the nartec. jake tells her they come in peace. she claps twice and declares they will be guests at a traditional nartec feast! she wants to know how they came to her land and how they acquired such a magnificent pet. she means ax.
she tells them naca, one of the guards, will show them around the palace. just before they leave, she gives an order: do not attempt to escape, surface-dwellers.
:/
we jump to the feast. they’re all sitting around a big wooden table. there’s a lot of raw fish on the table, and everyone has a mug with green juice in it. #guthealth
jake is kind of freaking out. they can’t escape, and visser three could be anywhere, hiding in a tiny morph, connecting these humans (and one andalite) to the whales that destroyed his ship. they should have just fought their way out of the net while they had the chance. not to mention no one knows where tobias is. queen soco’s like, so. any questions?
just a few
ax suggests via private thought-speak that jake ask about the origins of the nartec. it might provide them with more context as to what the fuck exactly’s going on. jake does. she closes her eyes for a long time and then opens them, staring up into the ceiling. very ritualistic. she launches into an origin story, which ax peppers with private commentary.
the nartec lived on an island that began to sink
the nartec built taller and taller walls around the island to protect it but the pressure of the great ocean caused these walls to bend and formed a ceiling
now the island is underwater, maybe still sinking
(ax is like yeah this is clearly a myth. very seven days and seven nights.)
the nartec evolved to their new environment and found lights via narna rocks
(ax: the rocks are radioactive, which explains why they mutated so quickly)
and now they live underwater as the rightful rulers of the one ocean and all lands that touch her
simple enough
queen soco adds that they study the technology from the sunken boats and use it to learn about the surface world. they’ve figured out navigational equipment and food storage methods and sometimes the ocean is kind enough to bless them with people on the boats so the nartecs can ask them questions until they’ve learned all they can.
“and then?” i asked. though i knew the answer.
queen soco smiled faintly, amused. “then they are preserved to become part of our storehouse of knowledge.”
“you kill them and stuff them,” rachel said.
“exactly.”
well at least she’s honest
jake’s freaking out. he asks queen soco what her plans are for the sea blade. oh, she says, world domination of course.
of course!
jake tries to ask about the crew of the sea blade, but the question and answer portion of the evening has come to an end. queen soco asks where their ship is. jake, obviously, can’t be like oh well we are our own ships, actually, and queen soco takes his silence personally. she’s like alright, keep your secrets. but i will discover the truth. ok! dinner over! feel free to explore again!
the animorphs convene in a small room just off the banquet hall. marco is instantly like we need to get the FUCK out of here. jake’s like yeah, for sure, but also we can’t just let queen soco take the sea blade to the surface. she could do some serious damage with the ship. ax points out that eventually, the sea blade would be destroyed by humans just based off sheer numbers, but marco points out his mug was from a russian nuclear sub. so maybe she also has nukes? and, rachel adds, they can’t just leave without tobias!
“okay. look, we have the run of the place. so, a) we find tobias, b) we destroy the sea blade, and c)—”
“c—we haul our soggy butts out of here and forget this lunatic asylum even exists?” marco interrupted.
“got that right,” i said.
yeah on the list of things the animorphs are going to need to talk to their therapists about, getting trapped in an underwater city run by radioactive amphibian humanoids surprisingly can’t rank very high because of, you know, everything else that’s happened
it’s like when i’m in therapy and i mention my theatre professor told me my type was “jennifer lopez with a phd.” like yeah, it’s pretty bad. but in comparison to everything else it’s like. is that really what we need to be focusing on this hour?
jk i never talk about ken womble in therapy i can’t afford the royalties
the animorphs go to the library!!! not a bit: they find the nartec palace library and begin rifling through all their papers. ax finds population records and comes to a truly horrifying conclusion: the nartec are self-destructing.
they are profoundly inbred.
they have fewer sources of new genetic material and are basically running themselves into the ground. even breeding with surface humans who survived their shipwrecks wouldn’t solve the problem—the new nartecs born wouldn’t have gills or webbed feet at the rate the species needed. conquering earth is a pipe dream for a species on the brink of extinction.
so, before the animorphs get killed and stuffed, they might also get their DNA extracted. or, you know, worse.
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jake’s like, ok. slight revision to the plan. we can’t destroy the sea blade, because the nartec would probably just fish it out of the ocean and fix it. but we can steal it, escape, and then destroy it. ax pipes up.
has it occurred to you that visser three, using his many morphs, might still be aboard the sea blade?
i nodded. “oh, yeah, ax. it’s occurred to me.”
naca takes the animorphs on a guided walking tour. he explains the set-up of the city, and it’s similar to ba sing se: close to the palace are where the rich people live, on the ring outside that are the merchants and workers, and furthest from the palace are where the gross poor people live.
“nice to know discrimination is alive and well among the nartec,” cassie mumbled. “i feel so … at home.”
as they’re walking, jake gets an uneasy sensation. they’re being led away from the center of town so naturally that it feels practiced. he realized he doesn’t know how old naca is. in his defense, age is one of those things that is, in my opinion, impossible. i used to joke that i couldn’t tell how old a kid was, but i’m not joking. and it doesn’t get any easier when people grow up. blue-skinned gilled amphibian people with eyes the size of tennis balls? forget about it. what’s that lifespan like??
naca leads them to a hospital ship. they’re standing on a causeway above the water when jake refuses to step inside. he knows how this ends. but before he can give the command—nacas fly out of the water below and knock them unconscious.
jake wakes up strapped to a table. #1 worst place to wake up. to his left, he can see cassie’s strapped down, too. to his right, rachel and marco. no sign of ax. naca approaches. no need to struggle, he says, you’ve already been drugged! i have seen this episode of criminal minds!!! naca explains in excruciating detail what the nartec will do to the bodies once the drug kicks in. it’s gross! it involves a long incision and the removal of organs!
the drug kicks in :/
as jake begins to drift off into what sounds like an incredible edible experience, a new nartec arrives and bashes naca’s ribs in, then takes out another one of the guards.
his rubbery, blue skin was now covered in a spreading pattern that looked a lot like feathers.
AND THE STUDIO AUDIENCE GOES WILD
it takes about ten minutes for jake’s head to clear back up, and by then, tobias has freed them all from their bindings. he explains that most of the nartecs are slow out of the water, which is why it took him so long to find them. there’s a lot of banging on the door: more nartecs, all armed.
then applegate gives us an incredible visual gag that would play so well on tv
jake asks where ax is, and tobias points to a smaller door. rachel spins it open: it’s a fridge. they put ax in the fridge. and he’s pissed. not because he was fridged (#girlboss) but because his DNA wasn’t good enough to improve the nartec species.
sorry bud
they morph to birds and fly out the window, narrowly avoiding recapture by the nartecs at the door. they land two blocks away from the dock and jake gives the order: they’re doing this rachel style. (applegate’s words!) battle morphs, hard and fast. they dash! into the sea blade one right after the other! they seal the door.
the ship is filled with mummified hork-bajir, posed around the ship like taxidermies in a natural history museum. mid-business.
horrifying!
they have to push the hork-bajir aside—gross—and ax tries to hack into the mainframe. the security protocols are trickier than he thought they would be (classic andalite arrogance), but the animorphs don’t have a lot of time. there’s a crowd of nartecs gathering outside, armed to the teeth with various weapons, grenades included.
the nartec bust down the outer hatch. jake leaves ax in the control room and takes the others to go fight. it’s gnarly! the nartec aren’t particularly strong, but they have a wide variety of weapons, and staggering numbers. they just keep coming in waves. a harpoon gets rachel in her grizzly shoulder. marco gets a shortsword stuck in his chest. half of cassie’s front paw is missing. jake’s bleeding out the haunch. things are not looking good.
BOUUUSSSSHHHH!
a massive blast of heat and light from the corridor!
SOUND THE ALARMS / FINISH YOUR DRINK
it’s visser three in morph! the luminar, to be precise, a beast from a moon of the planet slegabb five. i’m sure the webb telescope will be getting us a picture of that moon any day now. the luminar is a giant firebeast. just one big ball of flame.
visser three incinerates the nartecs one by one. the ship smells of flesh. gross! applegate uses the phrase, “piles and heaps of charcoaled nartec flesh!” which is…visceral. then visser three turns to the andalite bandits. he’s like, look, you need me to unlock the security measures and i need you to fly the ship because my crew’s been stuffed and mounted. jake’s like, what if we say no? visser laughs. then we’re all fucked, i guess!
jake agrees. fine. let the visser remove the security protocol. he lets ax drive the ship, and jake directs rachel to man the weapons station. she’s like uh, i’m not liscened to do that? jake tells ax to direct her. they all have to play their parts. in private thought-speak, jake tells marco to go to the outer hatch and hold it closed for now.
i don’t think the visser knows the hatch is blown, i said. he didn’t come from outside. he was aboard this whole time. if you can do it…
they blast their way out of the inner cave, then they blast out of the first large room they entered. the nartecs shoot missiles after them. visser three says to outrun them—but jake says don’t! he orders ax to stop the ship and tells marco to open the hatch. WOOSH! the room fills with seawater!
interesting morph, visser, i said. does it work underwater?
kick his ass!!
rachel grabs tobias and they all begin to swim out of the ship. the torpedoes hit. BOOM! the sea blade is destroyed! jake swims up, gets a gasp of air, then demorphs and remorphs into hammerhead. he meets with the other animorphs, also in hammerhead (except cassie who is in orca), outside the cave. cassie confirms her echolocation saw a giant squid swimming towards land. so, visser three is alive. but so are they.
as they swim back to shore, rachel’s like, someone needs to take care of the nartecs. ax points out that the nartecs use human weapons to capture and destroy. and the main reason the nartecs were able to get their hands on so many ships is because they were sunk during wars.
we want to hate them for what they do? maybe we should stop helping them do it.
and with that, they swim to shore.
REVIEW
3/5. we learned a little more about the world and that applegate agrees with me on “there’s something Down There.” i know not every book is gonna be a plot driven banger. it was nice to have something weird and spooky, and to tie up the pemalite ship plot line (maybe). 21 books left.
DISCUSSION QUESTIONS
which animorphs deserves to say “fuck” first
we’re now in the home stretch. final twenty books. do we think someone’s gonna die? like, permanently? who? i think rachel survives but at a great cost
PREDICTIONS
visser one will return
that’s all i have this week folks! go drink some water! bye!