He’s still in pain and confused and sort of vaguely tries to mumble-tell the other kids about the pain in his head, but Marco’s just cheerfully like, yep, I’d have a headache too in your shoes, shoo, we’ll cover your escape and sends Cassie off galloping with Jake on her back.
The kids get Jake tossed onto the back of Cassie, who’s switched to her horse form to get away fast. Rachel leads the way, apparently in her elephant form now.Ī voice in Jake’s head is all: Rachel? A human?Īnd then I start to cackle with delight, because while I had an idea from the book jacket that Jake was going to get Yeerked at some point in this book, I didn’t realize it was going to be able to talk to him, oh my gosh, this seems like it might be a lot of fun. Marco scoops Jake up and starts to carry him away from the scene. Jake’s sort of aware through the pain and trying-to-breathe stuff that Marco and Rachel have shown up in gorilla-and-wolf forms, and at least temporarily turned the fighting in their favor.
Jake wakes up coughing and sputtering on the floor of the hospital room, gagging on his lungful of Yeerk goo (eI will try to be sympathetic, though.
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