Disclaimer in chapter 1.
Chapter Three
Jerome ran into who he thought was his father- actually Aling- trying to comfort a girl- Anehta- he never saw before.
Aling saw him out of the corner of her eye. ((I'm not your father. I'm his Andalite wife in morph,)) She said to him.
Jerome remembered the hologram his father had showed him and moved out of the way so Anehta wouldn't see him. It wasn't very long until he saw his real father.
"You saw them. My other family." His father stated, his mind wandering off from reality.
"Yeah." Jerome replied simply.
"Anehta is a Nothlit." His father- now I'll tell you that his name is Marco (#2, of course)- muttered.
"Yes." What else could Jerome say?
"I should be there for her, to help her. This is new to her. Only I know what she's going through." Marco looked at his hands as if they weren't really his.
Jerome looked at Aling and Anehta. He didn't know how to reply to his father.
"To be something so long then become something else." Marco gave a tired laugh. "I almost didn't know what I was when I became human again."
"If she doesn't find a way to demorph, how can-" Jerome began.
"I don't think we can."
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"I don't think we can."
"That voice sounds like-" Anily started.
"Marc. His counterpart, anyway. And Jared's counterpart." Lyzah finished.
Anily fell silent. If Anehta didn't- no, she couldn't start thinking that way. They would find out how to escape and she and her mom wouldn't be in danger forever. She shook her head, hoping for a miracle.
A note suddenly appeared in some one's lap- not Lyzah's, but Tobias'. He read it out loud:
"I don't care which one of you guys gets this as long it goes to someone who knows what's going on right now. If any of us doesn't get out, their counterpart over there is in danger until they get out, which may be never, and then everyone will soon be in danger of Him again. A.L.R. and Anehta may not get out because Anehta is stuck in morph of a human. He said that the only way they could leave is if Anehta could demorph after the limit, which, here, still hasn't been changed. And I don't the Ellimist nor the Stsimille are gonna get us out of this mess...
-M."
Once again, there was more which Tobias thought should be kept private. The last bit had read:
"So it seems like the only other hope for them is Crayak."
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Anehta had fell asleep just minutes before Aling was to be a Nothlit as well, but escaped just in time. Aling saw Marco and Jerome still talking a bit off and decided to go to them.
((Marcoreno, do you know a way that can help us?)) Aling asked, using Marco's first part of his Andalite name, which she only used if she was stressed about something.
"I don't really know, A.L.R. Do you think the Ellimist or Stsimille will help?" Marco replied. Then, using thought-speak, how I don't know, he said privately, ((Or Crayak, if needed?))
((Maybe. Ellimist, I don't think so. Stsimille, they like to interfere a lot, so maybe.)) She said so Jerome could hear, and then so only Marco, ((Crayak, probably only if we promise to kill one of the Animorphs. Or our children.)) She shuddered, which Marco replied with a feeling of regret for even bringing that idea up.
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"Yes, if you have to turn to Crayak, he will make you kill either you children or your friends..." The captor said, laughing evilly.