Hello everyone!

I am sorry that I haven't updated this in awhile. This was harder to write than I previously thought and how I was going to originally tell this changed as well.

This is just going to be a short piece from Anjinnl's perspective detailing her thoughts of the Yeerk Peace Movement, life on Earth and a surprise.

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I ignore the loud sounds created by the human students as they mill around. Quickly I twist the dial of the combination lock to open my assigned locker. I miss the schools of my home world in some ways but I don't miss my fellow students.

For years I was subjugated to stares from adults and cruel words from my peers. Here the humans have no idea what I really am let alone who I really am so there is no reason to tell me that my father was a coward.

School on Nyumbani was excruciating at times. I was taunted through private Thought Speech, cruel pranks awaited me in blind corridors and I had no friends. The teachers were a joke since it was my word against my fellow students if I reported their behavior; after all they weren't the daughter of a warrior who had failed to do his duty and ended his life before he could be taken by the Yeerks.

Or so I was told.

Since Visser Three and his Host were only referred to as 'the Abomination' and because of my gender and position in life there was no reason for me to be shown a hologram of the Yeerk Visser I was able to silently rebuff what they said and consoled myself with telling myself that my father was either missing or perhaps undercover. I asked my mother only once why my father wasn't with us. She became sad and told me to never let anyone take my pride away.

That should have been my first clue that what my fellow students said was true.

My brother Kilipan taught me how to hold myself and my mother showed me how to keep my eyes and face blank for when I felt sad, lonely or when my fellow students said hurtful things.

I taught myself how to hack computers and get them to do my bidding. I was behind many of the glitches in my school's computer systems. I never did anything to incriminate myself so that meant that I also could and often did fall victim to all sorts of malfunctioning equipment like lifts that stopped between floors, doors that wouldn't open all the way or that would attempt to close while someone was in the doorway, the fire suppression system would unexpectedly come on and douse everyone with water and foam and a few other things.

After several years my teachers came to suspect that I was behind the computer glitches but they could never prove it. They called my mother, brother and my father's brother to my school to tell them of their suspicions and asked if I had confided in them any of my crimes.

My mother told them that I had a gift with computers but that I shouldn't have that kind of access to the school's computer systems. My mother even chewed them out for not having better security measures in place for the computer systems if they thought I was hacking it.

Kilipan told them that my schoolmates were taunting me so he wouldn't be surprised if I was returning the favor in some fashion but if I was wouldn't I exempt myself from the hazards?

My uncle told them that he rarely visited my family so he wouldn't know anything about my activities.

Shoving my depressing memories of school away and focused my thoughts on the Yeerk Peace Movement. It seemed against everything we knew about the Yeerks to not want an unwilling host. However the Gedd were very stupid and in many ways Hork-Bajir weren't much better. The Taxxons were the only half way intelligent kind of host body they had at their disposal and they would have to deal with the all-encompassing hunger.

I can't imagine an existence without any senses and I guess in many ways once the Yeerks learned that there were better hosts out there that they didn't want the slow and awkward Gedds anymore. I don't think that we shouldn't stop them but honestly Seerow and others should have thought about introducing the Yeerks to the concept of something more than their planet in the universe. If they had I wouldn't be on Earth but home with my father, mother and brother.

Odds are good that Aximili's brother would have been there as well and not lost to the depths of space and Rain Forester would be home with family as well.

The thought of more Andalite Controllers is frightening and not even Prince Arbron knows how long the Yeerks have been taking Andalites or who might be a Yeerk among the millions of Andalites in the galaxy. I worry about my mother since she is alone so often; she could be grabbed by the Yeerks if they do snatch and grab runs; not to mention it would demoralize my father if they have his wife.

I scowl at the thought of my mother being taken by the Yeerks and silently pray to whatever higher power that might exist and care to watch over her.

Shaking my head again I head towards my class when I see an unfamiliar face. Pausing I see that he is about the same age as my human friends but something about just seems off.

My eyes then land on what he is holding in one of his hands and gasp: an Escafil Device.

I don't think; I just act.

"You found my Tesseract!" I cry; snatching it from him. "My boyfriend made it for me and then some mean boys stole it from me. I thought it was gone forever! Where did you find it?" I ask him.

"Uh, this abandoned construction site on the way here." He responds; no doubt thrown by my actions.

"Thank you so much!" I tell him; giving him an awkward hug before racing away.

I quickly slide into one of the girl's restrooms to hide the Escafil Device in my book bag and make sure that it is well hidden.

I shudder when I think of what might have happened if a Yeerk that knew what an Escafil Device was saw it.

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So yeah, David isn't going to be joining them. They can't trap him in morph and since I don't advocate killing him or enslaving his family Marco gets a girlfriend.

In the next piece Tobias learns something shocking.