Animorphs 39 The Hidden by K. A. Applegate

Author:K. A. Applegate
Language: eng
Format: mobi
Tags: Animorphs
Publisher: Scholastic
Published: 2011-01-05T12:30:16.193728+00:00

<lt doesn t know what it's doing, Cassie,> Tobias said.

CCRRACK!

The buffalo's legs reversed, stretched, and hinged into human knees.

"There's something really gross about this,"

Rachel said, shaking her head. "It's so, I don't know, unnatural."

"So are we," I said, watching as the buffa-human wobbled up onto two feet.

Jake shot me a concerned look.

"That's different," Marco said. "We morph consciously. This buffalo's just mimicking what it sees. It doesn't know what the heck is going on."

We were all pretty messed up. So with Ax

"But what if it could learn?" I said. "What if and Tobias keeping a lookout and the buffalo fol-now that it has a human brain, he learns to use lowing doggedly at our heels, we demorphed.

it? What if it learns how to reason, or —"

The buffalo watched us, then began its own

"Nuh," the buffa-human grunted. "Guhhr-morph.

nuh." It looked up at me and blinked.

Once again, unnervingly, the head developed

"It's learning to talk," I said, feeling a mixture first.

of hope and nausea.

"Of all the people around, it just had to ac-

"No way," Marco shot back. "That was just quire Chapman?" Marco joked lamely, turning some kind of weird, random firing of neurons in away. "That is so not cool."

the speech part of its brain."

<l don't think there

"You're wrong," I said, stepping slowly toward 1 was a lot of choice involved there,> Tobias said.

the buffa-human, who went very still. "Hi. I know

"It's becoming human," I said quietly, watch-you can't understand me yet —"

ing as the buffalo's skin faded and lightened, as

"Nuh," it grunted, tossing its head. "Uhh-the coarse hairs were sucked back into its body.

hhnnn."

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