Shuddering as the Yeerk-enslaved man continued shoving him, driving him and Cassie steadily deeper into what was clearly the Yeerks' main base of operations, Tommy found himself passing by a row of cages – each and every one of them seeming to hold at least ten people, all of them crammed in tighter than he'd seen even the animals in the shelters that he'd been to when he'd been thinking of getting a pet – finding himself all the more furious at what he was seeing. It was a helpless sort of fury, at first, then tempered by the knowledge that Jake and the others were going to be there with them soon.

He and Cassie wouldn't be alone for much longer.