The Wizard

The Deal: I Sjeherazade don't own Animorphs. And I don't speak English if I don't have to so please have patience with my spelling and grammar mistakes, at least if they're not a complete catastrophe. Now over to Marco…

Day 7

Hi my name is Marco. I am awesome, amazing, elegant, the girls' favourite… and since a week ago I'm the leader of the Animorphs. And this long, everything is just fine. I have made it one week without any trouble so I haven't had to do anything really big.

But that doesn't mean I haven't had anything to do at all. I have had things to do, every day I went to visit Rachel for example. And I did that this day as well. I got the mail and my bike and went to the hospital.

I was the first one to visit her today. Cassie or Tobias normally use to arrive before me.

"Hello Xena!" Rachel looked up from the cartoons she read.

"Finally!" She called. "I started to believe that everyone had forgotten me."

"No way, I'm coming here to cheer you up every day until you can go home. How is it today by the way?"

"It really hurts! But enough about that, do you have any news?" She looked expectantly on me.

"I have news, how much do you want to pay?"

"I promise not to morph a bear and tear you into pieces!"

"Ax says it's too dangerous!" I smiled.

"Marco, please!" Then I actually started to laugh, that was the last thing I had expected her to do.

"Ok, I have the news, here take it!" I said and handed over the envelope. Her eyes sparkled in expectations when she took it.

"Ooooh lucky, lucky Jake, two weeks in Egypt." She opened the envelope and poured out the contents. "I would like to see the pyramids too instead of lying here all the time."

"I see what you mean. I wouldn't like to start summer vacation with a surgery." Rachel sighed.

"No, I hate this!" Then she found a photography of Jake and Tom who sat in the sun in front of the Sfinx, and then she got a little happier. Rachel had been sick just two days after they had left, she had got some hernias in some intestine which had lead to Ileus. Then they had opened her to fix it, and as I have told you already, Ax had warned her about morphing.

Jake had promised to send cards to the rest of us through me during this two weeks and when Rachel got sick I had promised her to take that to her to see and Rachel loved to look at them. Both she and Cassie liked to see Jake and Tom that happy together for once.

And that's why I kept his letters secret, I had only showed Tobias and Ax. It was just normal letters actually, except a few lines written in a code that he and I had invented when we were younger. The messages could be things like: "Tom sneaks out every third day!" and "They are here too!"

"Marco?"

"What? Yes?"

"Did you hear that Tom sent a photo to Cassie?"

"WHAT?"

"Yes, and she copied it for me, want to see it?" Then she took out the copy from a box. It was a picture of Jake, asleep. "Isn't he sweet?"

"I guess that is what the real Tom would do!" I gasped after I had stopped laughing.

"Cassie loved it anyway!" Then she looked at the other photo again. "How do you think the Sfinx lost its nose?" I was just about to give her a joke on that subject. But I saw that she was getting tired.

"Maybe Erek knows!" I smiled. Then Rachel mumbled something and fell asleep. I left the room, and walked straight into someone.

"Sorry!"

"…Sorry!" It was first when I had walked several metres that I felt that I recognized him, it was Visser 3.