Chapter 4: POV: Marina
I walked towards the alien, and put my hand on his injured flank, and prepared to heal the alien. I felt the energy within me go into the alien, and as it did, something unusual happened. When I was healing him, it felt like the alien was "giving" me his courage. Like a wave of warm energy that helped me heal better. When I healed his injured body, it was like he was, at least temporarily, healing my mind. All my stress and nervousness almost evaporated.
My gratitude is boundless for your action. I, Prince Elfangor Sirinial Shamtul, bane of the Yeerk Empire, swear my allegiance to your cause..within reasonable limits.
I blushed. "It was nothing...Prince Elfangor?...but what you did, you helped me recover from my stress a bit...is that an ability of your species?"
Yes. Andalites are capable of projecting emotion and concepts as well as words, with their thought-speech. You are not a human, are you?
"No, we aren't. None of us are. We are just as alien to this planet as you are."
There is only one race that us Andalites know of, that have powers like yours. Our allies, the Loric. But that is impossible. When we released a probe several years ago to make up for lost communication with the Loric, during our war with the Yeerks, our military closed off trade and communication with the Loric, we saw that their planet was destroyed beyond repair by what appeared to be a war. No survivors we fear. If there are, we think they may have been made into Controllers..you and your allies are the only free survivors I've heard of..the Yeerks are your enemy too, are they not?
"The Yeerks? No….the Mogadorians invaded, not the Yeerks...you don't know about the Mogadorians?"
You must be joking. Earth humor. The Mogadorians are not much more advanced than humans. Barely capable of spaceflight. Not even capable of Zero-space travel...unless...oh no!
"What?"
The Mogadorians must be at least partially Yeerk controlled!