Parting the Clouds
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Parting the Clouds 1 -- The Infection by Derin
Fandoms: Animorphs - Katherine A. Applegate
20 Jun 2016
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Parting the Clouds is an Animorphs AU in which Cassie is recast as a rationalist. It is inspired by works such as Luminosity and Harry Potter and the Methods of Rationality.
In this installment, five ordinary American teenagers take a shortcut through a construction site on their way home from the mall, looking for an easy way home. What they find is a wounded alien who, in his desperation, gives them a gift and a warning. The gift -- to become any animal they touch. The warning -- that their planet is under attack. And they, five untrained kids, are the only people in a position to protect it.
Help will come -- eventually. But until then, it's up to the Animorphs, and they'd better come to grips with aliens in general, their new enemy in particular, and their new morphing powers fast. The freedom of the world is at stake.
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- Part 1 of Parting the Clouds
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Parting the Clouds 2 -- The Infiltration by Derin
Fandoms: Animorphs - Katherine A. Applegate
25 Jul 2014
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After failing to rescue Tom from the Yeerk Pool, getting Tobias trapped in hawk morph and nearly getting killed, the Animorphs aren't sure how to proceed in protecting their planet. Spying on Tom could put him in danger and threaten Jake's secret identity, but fortunately, the Animorphs know another high-ranking Controller -- Assistant Principal Chapman, whose daughter Melissa is good friends with Rachel, giving them the perfect 'in'.
But something's not right about Melissa. Rachel's pretty sure she's a Controller. She insists on being the one to go ahead with the spying mission, but with this new information, Cassie feels uneasy about putting her friend in such a position. Is Rachel up to the task? Or will she lose everything trying to help an old friend?
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- Part 2 of Parting the Clouds
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Parting the Clouds 3 -- The Adaptation by Derin
Fandoms: Animorphs - Katherine A. Applegate
26 Aug 2014
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The yeerks are up to something in the mountains. The Animorphs need to find out what, and when they see what's going on, they hatch a plan that could tell the world about the invasion and put it in the hands of trained military, letting them get on with their lives.
But something's not right with Tobias. It's hard being a hawk, and it's getting to him. Can he hold it together long enough to complete what could be their very last mission? And what drastic lengths will he go to, knowing that out of all the Animorphs, he has no happy ending in sight?
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- Part 3 of Parting the Clouds
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Nightmares have become pretty commonplace for all the Animorphs, but something's not right about the dreams Cassie and Tobias are having. They're weird. And they're getting more desperate.
The Animorph deduce that Cassie and Tobias are picking up some kind of telepathic distress signal, and based on their limited knowledge of thought-speak, decide that the sender could be an andalite. Whoever he is, he's trapped under the ocean. Deep under the ocean. Called to action by both the debt they feel to Prince Elfangor and the prospect of the yeerks having another morph-capable host if they get there first, the Animorphs mount their rescue mission. But with too little information, too much water, and nothing on their side but the power Prince Elfangor gave them, can they rescue the trapped alien before the yeerks do?
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- Part 4 of Parting the Clouds
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Parting the Clouds 5 -- The Migration by Derin
Fandoms: Animorphs - Katherine A. Applegate
25 Oct 2014
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The Animorphs have a newly rescued andalite hiding out in the forest, and the next step is obvious -- get him home. But human technology is somewhat lacking in the interstallar transport department. Fortunately, there are a lot of yeerks around, and their interstellar transport works fine. The plan is simple -- call down a yeerk ship, hijack it, and hope Aximili-Esgarrouth-Isthill can outfly any pursuit.
But while it might be simple, hijacking an alien ship isn't exactly easy. And the Animorphs aren't prepared for the possibility that Visser Three might not be their biggest enemy...
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- Part 5 of Parting the Clouds
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Parting the Clouds 6 -- The Carrier by Derin
Fandoms: Animorphs - Katherine A. Applegate
30 Nov 2014
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The Animorphs are still settling into their new dynamic with their alien guest when Jake learns that the yeerks are planning something at the hospital. Something big. But that quickly take a back seat when, on a mission, Jake falls into a Yeerk Pool and picks up a parasitic passenger.
The Animorphs need to work fast, because the enemy in Jake's head has not only his morphing ability, but his memories. And it's desperate to escape, using Jake's knowledge of the team to pull them apart piece by piece in the effort. Can the Animorphs save their secrets and their leader both? And even if they do, can the team recover from the damage left by the enemy wearing Jake's face?
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- Part 6 of Parting the Clouds
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The Animorphs are tired. They've been fighting this battle a long time. So when, during a Yeerk Pool scouting mission gone bad, a mysterious being shows up and says it can take them and their families somewhere away from the yeerks to live in peace, it seems like a dream come true.
But things aren't that simple. What their supposed benefactor knows and what they claim to know doesn't really add up. For another, the Animorphs are the Earth's only defense from the yeerks until the andalite reinforcements arrive. Can they really doom all of humanity just to save the people they care about? But is it fair to keep putting the people they care about in danger by continuing their little war?
If this wasn't bad enough, changes in Rachel's family life are making it hard for her to handle the war. Can the Animorphs even keep up the fight if they lose their brave, protective frontliner? And in the midst of all this chaos, what can Cassie do to help her best friend?
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- Part 7 of Parting the Clouds
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Aximili-Esgarrouth-Isthill is trapped on Earth for the time being, and the Animorphs have taken him in. But it's starting to become clear that they can't necessarily trust Ax. Just because the Animorphs and the andalites have the same enemy doesn't mean they have the same goals, and Ax's secrecy and suspicious behaviour is starting to unnerve the others. Just how much can they trust the young aristh? And can they work together well enough to keep fighting the invasion?
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- Part 8 of Parting the Clouds
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The yeerks are after andalites, and they decide to hit them at home - the forest. Through a logging company, they intend to flush out the 'andalite bandits' at any cost. Since stopping the logging company is the goal anyway, nobody's too bothered that Cassie seems more focused on saving the local wildlife than on saving the human race... except Cassie, because the difference in what she professes to believe and what the war forces her to do is getting harder and harder to ignore. How can she keep fighting if she's not even sure who the good guys are any more?
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- Part 9 of Parting the Clouds
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There's something not right about Marco's friend Erek. He acts strange. He's in The Sharing. He has no smell, which should be impossible. And he's figured out who the Animorphs are.
But it's not as bad as it seems -- Erek's a chee, a type of alien android, and part of a secret group who oppose the yeerks, too. They want to help free the planet. There's just one problem; pacifism is hardwired into their programming, and they're incapable of committing violence. They can be reprogrammed with a particular artifact that needs to be taken from the yeerks, but the mission is difficult and dangerous. Furthermore, many of the chee don't want to be able to fight. They're worried that violence will change who they are and turn them into something they don't want to be. The Animorphs have a hard decision to make -- enable Erek's group to help them win the war by changing the nature of an entire species, or let the chee be and continue to fight alone. But if even the chee can't agree among themselves on what they want, who should the Animorphs listen to? And does the freedom of the chee, the last of their kind, outrank the danger to the freedom of humanity?
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- Part 10 of Parting the Clouds
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The Sharing has started a vaccination awareness campaign, and the animorphs need to find out why. Could just be harmless PR. Could also be that the yeerk showing an interest in injecting kids with things might mean bad news.
But it's hard to make headway on figuring out what the yeerks are up to, because it quickly becomes clear that somethin is wrong with Jake. He keeps seeing things that aren't there, in a place he isn't in. The animorphs have no idea what's going on or how to fix it, but they'd better figure it out fast, because Cassie's certain of one thing -- they're running out of time.
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- Part 11 of Parting the Clouds
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Jeremy Jason McCole, star teen actor and epitome of cuteness, is on the yeerks' radar. And the Animorphs have to save him, for the sake of the world... and hopefully a little gratitude.
But something is wrong with Rachel. After acquiring a crocodile, she finds herself unable to control her morphing when she feels intense emotion. And there's a lot going on to make her feel intense emotion. Can Cassie protect her friend from herself while they all protect Jeremy Jason from the yeerks, and the world from Jeremy Jason? Especially since Cassie's past betrayals of Rachel are starting to come back to bite them...
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- Part 12 of Parting the Clouds
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Tobias was just out flying. He didn't expect to stumble on two hork-bajir escapees. He certainly didn't expect to find himself a pawn in the ellimist's games yet again.
And now the Animorphs have in their hands the fate of the only two free hork-bajir in the galaxy. Two hork-bajir who the yeerks, it seems, will stop at nothing to capture, taking more risks and pulling out more stops than they ever have chasing the Animorphs. The Animorphs can help them be free or let them be slaves, and whatever they choose, they'd better commit, because if the Animorphs reveal themselves trying to free them only to lose the hork-bajir to the yeerks again, it's all over. But Tobias has been negotiating with the ellimist and might have a little something extra under his feathers...
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- Part 13 of Parting the Clouds
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Cassie and Rachel get the shock of their lives when they... the toilet one. This is the Andalite toilet book.
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- Part 14 of Parting the Clouds
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The yeerks are doing something in the ocean, and the Animorphs need to figure out what. But no scouting mission has been this tense, Trapped among their enemies in a base underwater guarded by oddly intelligent sharks, with their morphing abilities limited and no way to know how long it'll be before they can get home again, this would be a near-impossible mission even if Tobias wasn't still getting accustomed to morphing and Marco was thinking clearly.
But it gets worse: Visser One is back, And she's brought with her a new enslaved species; Leerans. Mind readers. One misstep, and the Animorphs have no secrets left. But it seems that Marco knows a few of the Visser's secrets himself...
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- Part 15 of Parting the Clouds
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Something strange is going on at the school. Something that the Animorphs need to check out. Unfortunately, investigation is quickly put on hold when the Animorphs find themselves suddenly teleported across the galaxy to an andalite military ship, and thrown into yet another ongoing conflict in the yeerk-andalite war. Far from home, the Animorphs may be the only chance to keep the Leerans free from yeerk control.
With several problems to tackle at once and no obvious answers, the Animorphs need to work fast. Can they save Leera? How will they get home? Can they maintain a good impression among the andalites and convince them that among their stretched resources and multiple battlegrounds, Earth is worth saving? And now that Ax has found his people once more and his oath to Jake is complete, can his help -- or his friendship -- be counted on?
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- Part 16 of Parting the Clouds
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The yeerks are hoarding oatmeal at the school, and the Animorphs have to figure out why. What plan could possibly rely on oatmeal? Poisoning? Some kind of chemical mind control?
Finding the answer only raises more questions, and more dillemmas. As their ability to fight this war grows, Cassie has more and more doubts about what exactly they are trying to do. How much harm is justifiable in the name of protecting their people? Are the Animorphs really helping anyone? And how long can they hold onto their values and use their powers to do what's right when even Cassie has no idea what right or wrong is any more?
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- Part 17 of Parting the Clouds
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That's it. Cassie's out. All the fighting, all the killing, and they can never be sure if they've made any kind of difference or, if they did, whether good or bad. Enough is enough.
But no sooner has she quit than disaster strikes, and the universe throws one last mission in Cassie's lap. A mission with one little girl, and one last enemy that must die for the safety of everyone she cares about. One last execution.
With nowhere to go and no Animorphs to back her up, Cassie must decide just how important her morals are. In a war between galactic forces with no easy answers, what price is too high for safety?
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- Part 18 of Parting the Clouds
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Apologies, this is not a fic, merely some announcements about the series.
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- Part 19 of Parting the Clouds
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Alternamorphs 1 -- Through the Page by Derin
Fandoms: Animorphs - Katherine A. Applegate
28 Jan 2018
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You're not yourself today. And nothing is as it's supposed to be.
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- Part 20 of Parting the Clouds
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The yeerks are up to something important. But the Animorphs don't know what, and the chee can't help them. Cassie's barely recovered from her time in the forest when, while tracking the yeerks, she is separated from the team again. And this time, she's a lot further away than just the forest. This time, she's ended up alone on the other side of the world.
There's a mission that Cassie needs to accomplish before the yeerks find her, and she doesn't know what it is. She doesn't have any of her allies to help her. The locals are helpful, but without any concept of the broader picture, can Cassie figure out what she needs to do, and how? What will she have to sacrifice, and how will she be able to judge if it's worth it?
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- Part 21 of Parting the Clouds
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Sorry this is late, just got out of hospital. Thanks to Redtailedhawk90 and Liz for their excellent beta work.
The Animorphs have a problem. Elfangor's blue box, the box that gave them all the power to morph, has turned up... in the hands of a random civilian. And now they have to get it before the yeerks do, or else said civilian, then the Animorphs, and then the entire world, are going to be in really big trouble.
But that's not as easy as it sounds. The finder of the box, whose name is David, doesn't trust them enough to cooperate, and the Animorphs can't afford to give awy enough secrets to gain his trust. How can these groups reach an agreement that will keep everybody out of yeerk hands, let alone the morphing cube?
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- Part 22 of Parting the Clouds
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The Animorphs have a problem. A summit is taking place in their hometown, where the leaders of some of the most powerful countries in the world are gathering, and the yeerks plan to infest all of them. Then, it's game over.
The Animorphs don't know the details of the plan. They don't know how the yeerks plan to proceed, or even why they're doing this. But they have to be stopped. One problem: a new, inexperienced Animorph means a new team dynamic, and this is one big mission for David to cut his teeth on. Can the Animorphs handle both their internal and external issues, and protect the world from infestation?
Thanks to Redtailedhawk90 and Liz for their excellent beta work.
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- Part 23 of Parting the Clouds
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Somebody knows about yeerks. Somebody on the internet.
The Animorphs aren't sure if they've found allies, enemies, or victims that they need to save, and they need to find out. But solving this mystery will reveal a bigger secret than they expected, and throw them into their biggest ethical dilemma yet...
Thanks to Redtailedhawk90 and Liz for their excellent beta work.
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- Part 24 of Parting the Clouds
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The ellimist is back, and he needs the Animorphs' help. An entire planet is in danger, and the fate of the residents comes down to a no-holds-barred fight to the death between two cosmic forces, each nominating eight champions to fight in their stead. On the one hand, the Animorphs have their own planet to defend and are kind of tired of being everyone else's regiment-for-hire; on the other, it's difficult to justify turning their backs on the fate of an entire planet of innocent people. But the biggest complication might not be the Animorphs themselves, but their eighth champion: Erek, who is completely incapable of fighting, insistent on going with them, and very obviously not telling them everything.
If the Animorphs want to survive, they have to answer a lot of questions very quickly -- what's so important about this planet they've been sent to defend? How do you defeat a military force built by an evil god specifically to destroy everything in their path? What's the ellimist's game here; does he even want them to survive? Who is he?
And what, really, is a chee?
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- Part 25 of Parting the Clouds
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The Animorphs are stranded on an alien planet, fighting an unbeatable enemy, and Jake is dead.
It's about to get worse.
The Animorphs are about to learn things about Iskoort that will make them wonder just what Jake gave his life for, make them wonder if the planet is even worth saving. But it's too late to back out; it's them against the Howlers, and the Animorphs no longer have a leader. Can they pull together in time to survive? Can they find some way to defeat their enemies and avenge Jake? If they can't, more than Iskoort and the Animorphs are at stake. If they can't, who's going to protect Earth?
Thanks to Redtailedhawk90 and Justanotherghostwriter for their excellent beta work
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- Part 26 of Parting the Clouds
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Ax has been intercepting yeerk transmissions, and he's found something strange. Something that might not have come from yeerks at all. Something that might have come from andalites.
If he's right, this could change everything. Have the andalites finally arrived to save Earth? Is it all over? Or will this play out like the situation aboard the Ascalin?
The Animorphs need to make some fast decisions about who to trust, and how much. Because if this is the miracle they've been hoping for, then whatever happens next will shape the future of their entire species, and the whole of planet Earth.
Thanks to Redtailedhawk90 and Justanotherghostwriter for their excellent beta work
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- Part 27 of Parting the Clouds
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The Animorphs have a problem. Well, two problems. The first is that Ax is sick, and without treatment, he will die.
The second is that Aftran, Cassie's yeerk friend who knows all their secrets, has been discovered as a traitor. If the Animorphs can't rescue her before Visser Three interrogates her, the yeerks will know everything. Oh, and Ax's illness is contageous, putting Animorph after Animorph out of action. With two time limits and a dwindling workforce, they're going to have to come up with something fast, before everyone on their side ends up dead or captured. And when you're fighting body snatchers, it's hard to know which fate is worse.
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- Part 28 of Parting the Clouds
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CONTENT WARNING: BIGOTRY, FASCIST RHETORIC
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The Animorphs have a lot going on. With the fight for human unification and world peace on one hand , the fight against alien invaders on the other, and just trying to grow up to be decent citizens of the Empire in the middle, there's not much room for anything to go wrong. But if Ax's information is correct, the yeerks are upping their game. They're expanding into new bases outside the city.
The Animorphs can't allow this. Ready to protect their planet from invaders, they head to Clearview Orphanage, the new yeerk base of operations and Tobias' old home. But Jake knows something about Clearview, too, and what they find might tear the Animorphs apart before the yeerks can.
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- Part 29 of Parting the Clouds
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The world is screwed up, and the Animorphs are about to learn why -- a controller has the Time Matrix, a powerful spacetime-altering machine superior in some ways even to Ellimist, and is trying to build a world susceptible to yeerk control. Ellimist can send the Animorphs to retrieve the device, but whether they succeed or fail, a price must be paid -- the life of an Animorph.
As with the war, the Animorphs have no choice to go ahead and fight, even if it costs their lives. But who will die, and how will they go on without them? Even if they win, how can they repair their mangled timeline? There's no room to relax, because in this adventure, the Animorphs will have to make a life-and-death decision that nobody expected...
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- Part 30 of Parting the Clouds
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Someone's looking for Tobias.
A lawyer wants to read a will to him. His father's will. What's more, a distant relative has shown up out of nowhere to take Tobias in. It all feels too good to be true, but the Animorphs can't figure out how this can possibly be a yeerk plot.
Also, Marco's father is remarrying. Between Marco's father moving on, David's father recently dead and Tobias' father's words from beyond the grave, there's a lot more going on for these teenagers than a mere alien invasion. Can Cassie keep her friends emotionally stable enough to actually defend the planet? And is it even her job to do so?
Thanks to Redtailedhawk90, Justanotherghostwriter and Zaqwer for their excellent beta work.
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- Part 31 of Parting the Clouds
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Something weird is going on. Weird and impossible things are happening, like nightmares that leave evidence in the real world, and they seem to be centered around Cassie. Could Ellimist be messing with them? Could the recent use of the Time Matrix torn the very thread of reality, as they were warned it might? Or is Cassie simply losing touch with reality?
The Animorphs need to figure out which it is, and fast. Because they're about to face a danger that none of them can possibly be prepared for.
Thanks to Redtailedhawk90, Justanotherghostwriter and Zaqwer for their excellent beta work.
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- Part 32 of Parting the Clouds