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CHAPTER 12

((I can't see anything!)) I yelled in thought speak. I wanted to see, yes, I wanted to see. I needed to find out what he looked like, what set of genes he had, which ones I had inherited.
One of Ax's cockroach antennae twitched. ((We must remain calm. I want to see him also, but we are not in position. Tabitha is.)) It was reasonable. It was logical. It just wasn't fair.

Fine. I called to my twin sister, ((Tabitha? Can you come into the room and then decide that you need to go someplace else. I think my, I mean, our father is in there. )) I first felt her steps which were soon followed by the sound of her voice.

"Oh, I'm sorry. I thought this was my aunt's room. You seem to be in here on your own?"
Listening in I asked, (Who was she talking to?))
"I thought I heard you talking to someone?" Tabitha asked politely.
"I was." she sighed. "My husban- well, the father of my children. But, he is gone. It has been for about eight months now. I just now remembered his name again. I was," she paused while the air remained filled with emotion. "I was talking, hoping he would hear me."
"Oh, um, do you mind, um, I have some friends, and we have nothing to do, and well, I'm sure they would like to hear this story."
"Sure, bring them in."
"Okay, I'll be right back." She walked out of the room.

We ran. Ax and I ran like there was no tomorrow. We demorphed and remorphed faster then we had in our entire life. In human form, we ran back to her room, my mother's room.
"We are back," Tabitha announced.
"Oh good. I'm a little lonely. I haven't found any one since he left."
"Actually, I can't even remember him most of the time. I just know that I was pregnant. And now I'm not, and I didn't know who the father was. Now I do, but I'll forget again." She said it so simply.
She knew, I thought. Why? Why would she forget my father?
"Memory Replacers?" Ax whispered under his breath.
"Yes, how did you know?" she asked.
"We are Andalites, investigating Elfangor," I said quickly. It was close enough to the truth, I didn't feel to bad about lieing to my mother.
She nodded, "Of course, something like this was bound to happen."
"Often intense pain, paaeeein, peeen, pain. Breaks the memory seal for a short time." Ax added helpfully.
she smiled, "Al used to do that...play with words...Anyway, yes, that would make sense. I feel it slipping away already. I just wish my children would know of him. How great he was. How great he was even for a human, and an Andalite."
"They will know. We will make sure of it." Ax said proudly. Tears were coming out of his eyes. Not just his eyes, I realized, but Tabitha's as well, and my own.