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<Books 25-27>
- “The Pemalites may have been the most advanced species ever to exist in the history of the universe. So advanced they forgot all about primitive stuff like wars and worry and sadness.” ~ Marco, Book #25 pg. 11
- “Okay. I’ll be there, but I promise to complain the entire time.” ~ Marco, Book #25 pg. 18
- “Ax, I really think you can just deal with the fact that they aren’t our minutes. They are everyone’s minutes.” ~ Marco, Book #25 pg. 28
- <Say, Rachel, I got a joke for you,> I said.
<No you don’t,> she said.
I ignored the warning. <Two blonds are standing across the river from one another...>
<Hey,> Tobias interrupted. <Remember, I’m a blond, too. It may be dirty-blond, but it’s blond.>
<Yeah, for a couple of hours a week,> I said. <Anyway, the one blond calls out to the other blond, “How do I get to the other side?”>
<That is very funny, Marco,> Ax said brightly.
<I haven’t told the punch line yet, Ax,> I replied. <And the blond across the river calls back to her, “You ARE on the other side!”>
<That does it,> Rachel said. <Time for Plan B.>
<I’ve heard that one before,> Tobias said, unimpressed.
<I am afraid I do not understand,> Ax replied.
<Tobias, where exactly did you hear that joke before?> I demanded. <A sparrow, an owl, and you, hanging out and swapping stories?>
<Ax, do you have any idea where we are?> Jake asked.
<I believe we are heading north.>
<Still north?> Jake replied. <How much longer until we have to demorph?>
<About twenty minutes,> Ax replied. <Of your minutes,> he added, with what I swear was deliberate provocation.
[Page 40]
- “Here’s a clue: Don’t kill a sentient creature except in absolute self-defense, try not to wipe out endangered species, and if you’re going to raise animals for food, treat them as well as you possibly can.” ~ Cassie, Book #25 pg. 96
- “You can’t be in a war and think about all the stuff that happens. You can’t keep all the fear and all the pain right there in the front part of your brain, you know? You go nuts like that.” ~ Marco, Book #25 pg. 144
- “If the Yeerks had any sense of humor at all they wouldn’t be the scourge they are.” ~ Ellimist, Book #26 pg. 13
- “We’re talking about an entire species, an entire race being evil. That isn’t possible.” ~ Cassie, Book #26 pg. 75
- “That’s what Nazis and slave owners and people like that believed. That you can just take a whole race or whatever and say, ‘they’re all this or all that.’ That’s never going to be true.” ~ Cassie, Book #26 pg. 75
- “How do you stand on the sidelines when evil is running amok?” ~ Jake, Book #26 pg. 111
- “I will never surrender my free will.” ~ Rachel, Book #27 pg. 3
- Jake ran to snatch up some full-head masks. “I have Clinton, Gingrich, and a Teletubby. Dipsy, I think.”
“That’s not Dipsy,” Cassie corrected. “That’s Tinky Winky. Dipsy’s green and has the straight up thing. Tinky Winky’s the one with the triangle.”
<Who’s the little red one?> Marco wondered.
“Po,” Cassie said.
<Oh, yeah.>
“No offense,” Erek said, “but how on Earth have you people managed to avoid getting caught for this long?”
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- “Wasn’t it Journey to the Bottom of the Sea?” Marco asked.
“No, it was Voyage,” Jake confirmed.
“Journey sounds better,” Marco said.
Jake sighed. “Hey, time marches on, right? We’re in a hurry. What are you thinking, Cassie?”
“Calamari,” she said with a grin.
“Snails?” I said, frowning.
<I am not in favor of snails,> Ax said.
“Wait, that’s not—” Cassie said loudly.
<I had the misfortune to inadvertently eat one while feeding,> Ax continued. <I did not see it in time. I stepped on it and digested it.>
“You ate a snail through your hoof?” I asked. That picture temporarily replaced the image of me being squashed to the size of a Barbie doll on the ocean floor.
<Yes, and the meat portion was fine. However, once the snail’s body had been digested, the shell was very difficult to—>
“Ooookay, I think that’s probably enough about snails,” Jake said.
“Yeah, especially since calamari does not mean snail,” Cassie pointed out. “Escargot means snail. I was talking about—”
<I have an idea: Let’s all just stick to speaking English,> Tobias grumped.
“Squid!” Cassie yelled suddenly. The birds in the trees around us fell silent. So did we.
Until Tobias said, <Uh-uh. Calamari is octopus, not squid.>
“Oh. Who. CARES?” Cassie cried. “Squid. We can morph a giant squid! Giant squid dive really deep. And they have arms, so we could maybe get into the Pemalite ship.”
I met Marco’s gaze. “Why didn’t she just say that to begin with?”
“Could have saved a lot of time,” Marco agreed, playing along.
<What does any of this have to do with your Captain Nemo?> Ax wondered.
Cassie threw up her hands. “It’s a book. Journey to—”
“Ah HAH! It was Journey!”
“I mean Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea,” Cassie grated. “Captain Nemo was attacked by a giant squid.”
“Who won?” Marco asked.
“Wait a minute,” I said. “It wasn’t Journey or Voyage. It was 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea. Jules Verne.”
Cassie looked like she might strangle me. Then she said, “Oh yeah. Voyage was a TV show. They run it on the Sci-Fi channel.”
“I thought it was on Nick at Night,” Marco said.
At which point everyone started giggling.
“Someone call the Chee and tell them they’re doomed,” I said. “Their only hope is a collection of idiot kids, standing around in the woods debating cable channels.”
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- “You know, Rachel, you’re like the smart kid in class who sits in the front and always raises her hand. ‘I know! I know!’ Only with you it’s ‘I’ll go! I’ll go!’” ~ Cassie, Book #27 pg. 84
- <Two of your hours and seven of your minutes,> Ax said.
“Ax, they are everyone’s hours and everyone’s minutes,” Marco said. “My hours are your hours. This is Earth. A minute is a minute!”
<Now we have two of your hours and six of your minutes,> Ax said dryly.
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