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"Whoa." Marco said, wiping his ears with a towel. He was back, and dressed now. (Thank God!) "That's a long name, even for an Andalite."

She blushed. (Yes, my parents are very proud of our family heritage.)

I even saw Menderash looking approvingly at her. Poor Menderash. It must be hard for him not to be able to relate to his people anymore. I could understand that.

We all tried not to snicker. He continued to look at her raptly, his tail twitching and curling a little.

She looked around at all of us. She rested her main eyes on Jake. She beamed. (You are Prince Jake.) She said with certainty.

"Yes." Jake said, obviously surprised she'd recognized him.

She seemed to laugh. (Don't think I can read minds or anything! I have seen images of you before.) She bowed her head quickly. (You are very appreciated among my people, you know.)

Jake grinned. "No, actually, I didn't realize that. I'd have thought they wouldn't have been so picky about me staying here."

L'Ainika seemed puzzled. She blinked several times, looking to Jean, as if to explain to her what Jake meant. Jean laughed.

"He is only fooling with you. He is grumpy you see. The government has been not easily persuaded to allow us to stay here while repairs are being made on Le Rachel. Come this way please."

(Yes, I wanted to talk to each of you about your medical situations privately.) L'Ainishikaa said.

"All of us?" I said, surprised. "We're all mostly fine."

( Well, you see, my superiors have expressed some...concerns...at your physical and mental states, as you have all been through so much.)

We all remained silent. Been through what? A suicide mission? Typical stuff for us, really.

I looked over at Ax to see what he thought and saw his open wide. He seemed to be listening to someone. Or rather, trying desperately not to. He shook his head, then placed his hands over his ears and began to scream in thoughtspeak.

He cut Jake off in mid sentence.

"What exactly do you mean by-"

(AAAAAAH! AAAAAAAAAH! AAAAH! AAAAH! AAAAAAAAH! NOOO! NOOOOOOO!)

"Aximili!" Jean cried out. She rushed to him.

"No!" Jake held Jean back.

"Oh help him please!" Jean said.

Marco ran to Ax. So did I. I demorphed to hawk. I spoke to him urgently in thoughtspeak. Menderash pinned Ax's arms to his sides, so he wouldn't hurt himself.

This had all happened before.

Ever since we had rescued him from the One, Ax would wig out sometimes. Just randomly wig out. For no reason.

(Ax!) I said. (Ax! Listen to me!)

He responded by shaking his head and screaming.

"Ax! Stop it!" Marco said.

Suddenly I rocked as Ax sent me a powerful image.

Of the One.

He was here. Or in Ax, anyway. Still holding onto Ax.

Why hadn't Ax told me before!

Had he told anyone!

I looked around, no one seemed to be unsurprised or shocked. We were used to Ax freaking out but we had just figured it to be aftermath. Just shock, maybe. Bad thoughts.

I should have known better.

You're in space Tobias! Space! I reprimanded myself. You should have known it wouldn't just be stupid war memories!

Deciding, I couldn't help as a hawk, I morphed to human, and placed my hand on Ax's shoulders. I shook him a little gently.

"Ax man? Ax, bud it's okay man. We're here. Calm down." I tried to look in his eyes, but he kept jerking them around and looking away from me.

Ax's screaming fit began to subside. I looked over to the nurse, L'Ainishikaa.

Her eyes were wide, all four of them focused on Ax. She had a look of knowing. As if she had just found precisely what she had been looking for.

I looked to her. She looked over and I caught her main eyes.

"What's wrong with him!" Jake cried, as Ax sat still, but for his torso rocking back and forth, Menderash still pinning his arms, Marco holding his tail back. Ax's eyes just stared off into space, eyes still wide.

"She knows." I said, motioning to the andalite nurse.

She looked surprised at me.

"Yes." I said again. "You do, don't you?"

They all looked to her. She looked down momentarily, as if thinking of telling us. Then she looked up.

"Yes." She said, looking us all evenly in the eyes.

"The One." I said softly. "He's still in Ax."