(Ax, how are we doing on time?) Jake asked, as they all continued on their way down into the Yeerk pool.
They'd broken away from the Controller they'd been following, leaving them with less of a chance to be discovered or stepped on, and were also making an effort to stay toward the sides of the room so that they'd be farther out of sight of any of the Controllers they were passing.
(Twenty-eight of your minutes have passed since Rachel and Cassie entered morph,) Ax reported.
(You know, Ax, they're your minutes now, too,) Marco said, and Tommy found himself wishing for a moment that he could have rolled his eyes; he could just see this whole thing becoming a running joke. (I mean, we're all here on good ol' Earth, where we have only one kind of minute.)
(Stairs up ahead,) Cassie said, when no one seemed inclined to make any kind of comment on what Marco had just said.
They passed down what felt like seventy-five steps, before passing into the main underground cavern that housed the Yeerk pool. That was the nicest thing that Tommy became aware of, as he and the rest of the Animorphs continued on their way. The screams and cries of all of the captured people rattled and quivered up through his antennae, and Tommy found that he couldn't quite manage to stop himself from thinking about what all of them meant.
(I wish I could see more clearly,) Ax said, sounding entirely too happy for the place they were all standing right now. (I want to see all that is happening.)
(No, you don't,) Rachel snapped, before any of the others could say a single word.
Not that any of them would have said differently, really.
