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Trouble did a very good job of not leaving breadcrumbs leading to the other Animorphs any more than was already inevitable. Still, the cops - who may or may not have been Controllers - talked to Bella just because Trouble has been known to hang out with her; they talked to Renée a little too. Bella thinks she did a good job of affecting ignorance and dismay. Andi didn't, but Andi defaults kind of expressionless anyway even though her braces have been off for a year and a half.
At school - now in its very last days - everyone knows that Trouble borrowed fifty dollars from Amber Jefferson and made off with it. Amber is very gossipy and can afford to lose fifty bucks; he chose well.
Bella hasn't heard from Trouble - or for that matter Aspret - yet.
aeskhyne
"Well, Aspret sure wasn't. If anybody else was, she didn't hear about it or it didn't seem important."
aeskhyne
"What, are these ones in contact with them, you mean? No. The higher-ups might be; the grunts aren't."
pandion
<Interstellar communication is expensive? No one thinks it's important? They're on radio silence for security reasons?>
aeskhyne
"I think it's more like a hierarchy thing. You have to get a ways up the ladder before you're allowed into the fancy shit."
aeskhyne
He hesitates.
"...Being useful," he says at last. "Like Aspret's biochemistry, or Visser Three's Andalite host. The Yeerks want to conquer or destroy every other species they can find. The better somebody is at helping get that done, the more stuff they get."
"...Being useful," he says at last. "Like Aspret's biochemistry, or Visser Three's Andalite host. The Yeerks want to conquer or destroy every other species they can find. The better somebody is at helping get that done, the more stuff they get."
pandion
<So it isn't, say, essential to station it exactly ten meters above the exact center of the pool, or anything. Damn.>
pandion
<Thoughts on how likely it is other Yeerks we manage to take alive will take the duck deal and not sell us out?>
aeskhyne
"Most Yeerks wouldn't even think of taking the duck deal. Aspret was just, you know, fed up and terrified."
aeskhyne
"...When I say they wouldn't even think of it, I mean it like... that almost doesn't make sense as a question. Like, imagine you went up to a random person on the street and offered them twenty bucks to shoot the President. I bet you can guess most people wouldn't take it, but I sure couldn't tell you exactly what about it would put people off, except, you know, some kid just offered them twenty bucks to assassinate the President? Maybe some people wouldn't go for it because they believe in democracy, and some people wouldn't go for it because they don't want to kill anybody, and some people wouldn't go for it because it'd be dangerous, and some people wouldn't go for it because they wouldn't even know how, and some people wouldn't go for it because twenty bucks is too low, or a bunch of those reasons or a bunch of completely different reasons or just because there's no room in their head to even take an idea like that seriously."
aeskhyne
Trouble shrugs. "It was a good deal for Aspret because she was already on the outs with the boss and she probably couldn't have survived any other way - even if she had sold us out, he could've killed her anyway, he does that sometimes when somebody pisses him off and then tries to make it up to him too fast. Most Yeerks we catch won't already be in deep shit like that."
pandion
<Noted. Disappointing but it makes mass opportunistic slaughter more appetizing, I guess, if they're generally going to be unsalvageable in non-parasitic forms.>
