The next time all of them met, it was apparently after Rachel had gotten up to some kind of trouble at the circus.
"You threw the guy into the air?" Jake asked, looking like he disapproved about as much as Tommy did. "Don't you think that was kind of unnecessary?"
"No," Rachel said, looking almost defiantly back at him and Jake. "He made me mad."
"You know, you could have tried to talk him down, somehow," Tommy said, as they all continued on their way through the woods.
"Or, she could have just dropped the whole thing," Marco said, sounding distinctly unimpressed. "We do have other stuff to deal with. The Andalite didn't give us these powers so we could turn into turn into the Animorph Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals."
"Fine," Rachel said, but she sounded more like she was more impatient with their discussion than anything else. "But what's got you so serious, Marco?"
"Let's wait until we find Ax," Marco said. "I don't want to end up telling the story twice."
"Since when don't you want to tell the same story twice?" Jake asked, a teasing expression on his face. "I've known you to tell the same, tired jokes eighty or ninety times."
"That's your own fault," Marco said, smirking back. "If you'd just laugh the first time, I wouldn't have to keep telling them."
Chuckling softly as Cassie spotted a family of skunks and got excited about them, Tommy turned his attention back to Tobias as he fluttered through the trees above them. For the moment, Tommy was pleased to have the chance to spend some time outdoors like this. He knew that there was probably something planned, something that he and the rest of the Animorphs were going to have to do to fight the Yeerks.
Still, for the moment Tommy allowed himself to relax while he walked.
