Globs of stuff floated along next to us. Brushed off the tunnel walls, bounced off our shark bodies. Some were rod-shaped and about the size of grapefruit. Others, just shapeless pieces of material. Still others, fuzzy balls, like Ping-Pong balls stuck all over with cotton.
I asked.
Cassie explained.
Cassie said.
I’m not much of a sightseer. Generally, sight-seeing puts me in a tedium-induced rage.
This was different.
I was happy to be a tourist, especially if it would keep me from going cannibal. Besides, how many suburban girls get to travel down a human vein as a tiny hammerhead shark?
Disney has nothing on the Animorphs.
Red blood cell. Red blood cell. Red blood cell. After I’d seen a few thousand, I stopped paying attention to them and started to focus on the other floating shapes.
I demanded.
Something seriously small passed in front of my eyes. To the sub-mini shark, it was about the size and shape of a pill bug. A pill bug with little spikes covering it. A 3-D millipede.
Cassie asked eagerly.
The thing looked out of place. Sharp and pointed in a world where everything else was soft and oval.
Cassie said.
Jake interrupted.
Again, I spotted the spiny thing. It wasn’t just bumping along in the current. It seemed to have a purpose. A mind or a will. I watched as it brushed up against a red blood cell, probed it, then bounced away.
I’m not big on superstition or New Age crap. Don’t read my horoscope. Never had my fortune told. But I had a feeling about that spiky thing. Some primitive, instinctual part of my human brain didn’t like it.
Tobias called.
I powered my tail and caught up.
Jake said.
Cassie.
Jake said grimly.
The pill bug from hell! It was on my morph. Probing me!