Evolution. The word, the process, that made us what we are. Many human Controllers have called us slugs, and that is what we are. Parasites, vile, disgusting . The Hork Bajir call us "mind takers." Yeerks, What ever you call us, we are the same. That is all we can be. This is what nature has designed us to be. Slave masters. How could nature be so cruel? We have no choice in what we do. If I want to see, to hear, to live in the universe around us, we must become slave owners. How can we give up the pleasures of the universe. Of taste, sound, and the most intoxicating sense of all, sight? We have the right to live, to breathe, to see. How can the Andilites think that we are evil?
I ask myself this, yet I know how evil I am. I disgust myself. So that I may see, I take another's sight; I take all of their sense, until they are an empty shell. I make them what I was: blind, deaf, mute. How can I impose that hell on another sentient species?
They have all hated me, my hosts. All of them. All except Trisha. The "easy" assignment. Trisha. She is a human youth, the mind of children offer very little resistance. Trisha never tried to fight me; how I wish she had. She never screamed in her head for freedom, she never begged to be let free. She never felt hate. She felt something no host has ever felt: pity. Not for herself, but for me. She felt pity on me. Damn the word! She felt sorry for me, for what I was, what I had become. Had she felt hate, or anger, I never would have realized what a disgusting creature I am.
I want what Trisha wants. I want her to be free. I hate what I do to her. She will never breathe free with me in her head. But I cannot, return to the Pool. The Earth based Pool, my home. The Pool is my home, and I will never go home again. My life, if you can call it that, will end. I do this not for myself, but for Trisha. She deserves freedom. It has nearly been three days. My time draws near.
One day we Yeerks will evolve beyond the need for hosts. Until then my friends, human and Yeerk, hope. Hope for the day of total freedom.
_Isplinn 377 of the Earth based Pool.