Jake
Hey. The name's Jake. But I guess you guys already know that.
Actually, I really hope you know that, because I'm not in any position to be spilling my secrets to you strangers. I'm not going to give you any of the 'it's too dangerous' crap that I used to say.
Yeah, that's right. Used to. As in 'no longer'.
You see, it's been 27 years since the Yeerks discovered who we were. What we were. 10 years after that, I guess you could say that the war ended. Marco, Aximili, and Rachel were all captured and made into controllers. Tobias was then killed and eaten.
Just like Elfangor.
But I guess that's what he would have wanted. To die a hero just like his father would have been a privilege for him. When the Yeerks invaded the Hork-Bajir valley, Toby and the others were slaughtered and any survivors were taken to the Yeerk pool.
Cassie and I had nowhere to run. We had nowhere to hide. The Yeerks knew where we lived, and they then knew of every hiding place we could have possibly used. So, eventually, after 3 months of running, we too we're taken to the Pool.
Visser One then tortured me every day for the 5 months I was there. But finally I escaped. I ran from my captors but unfortunately, Cassie died from a poisonous gas that had "accidentally flowed into her cage" as the Yeerks explained it.
So now I'm back on the run. I have been for 16 years. But like I said earlier; you could say that the war effort ended 15 years ago.
But it hasn't. As long as I'm alive, there's hope.