The next time all of them were able to meet up again was a couple days later, and Tommy found himself wondering if there was going to be another mission for them, or if they were all just catching up with each other to make sure that all of them were all right. He'd been keeping up with Tobias' reports about his foster family's movements, and it seemed that they were in fact Controllers.
It wasn't a happy thought, strictly speaking, but knowing it did help to explain why been so cold to him for such a long time.
Flying in through the open window in the barn's hayloft, Tommy put those thoughts out of his mind. Fluttering to a stop next to Tobias, Tommy looked back out through the hayloft window to make sure neither of Cassie's parents were coming, then fluttered down to the floor and started demorphing. Apparently, Tobias had had plans to visit Rachel last night, but something had come up.
Presumably, something that the Yeerks were behind, so he and the rest of the Animorphs were going to have to stop it.
(Anyway, it looks like someone is about to start logging in the national forest,) Tobias reported, after snippily asking after a golden eagle that Cassie and her family had been treating.
"No way!" Cassie exclaimed, though no one else seemed to be as upset about the idea as she was. "So habitat will be destroyed! So animals will be made homeless! So old-growth trees will be chopped down to make plywood!" Cassie exclaimed, in response to Marco's uncaring dismissal. "That's so what!"
"And I care about this… Why?" Marco asked, sounding more than a little unimpressed by what he was hearing.
(You might not care, Marco, but you might care about who it is doing the logging,) Tobias said, cutting into the conversation before anyone else could say anything.
"I'm guessing it's a logging company," Marco said, shrugging.
Finding out that the Yeerks had set up some kind of outpost, deep in the forest, with the aim of tearing their way through the forest in search of the Animorphs wasn't what Tommy had been expecting when they'd all come to the barn in the first place. Still, he supposed this answered the question of whether there was a new mission for them or not.