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TObias, too, has taken to spending a lot of time in the Sensorium, to get away from the metal and wierd flesh-or-whatever-it-is and into somethng more realistic for a while. He gets it to set up like a forest, complete with a few simulated thermals and some mice to hunt to keep up his skills. ALthough not being able to eat them is making him crazy. He also knows Ax can have fun in this environment, and begins to think of asking him to transform it into an Andalite planet-scape, just for curiosity's scape.

He's worried still about what's going on back in his own world. How many of his friends are here on the ship? Has history been changed with Ax being pulled out of reality earlier than he was? Are the Yeerks still defeated? He wishes he knew for sure.

(ooc I'm not sure what Ax's tag is but anyway...)

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There were familiar noises in this forest. Specifically, noises a bit like a big old four-legged, two-handed, four-eyed, scorpion-tailed alien trying to be silent.

Ax was amazed that Stacy even managed to get the smells correct. The simulated grass even tasted the same, to the limited degree of taste that he had through his hooves. He hadn't trusted that Stacy would keep the rest of the crew out of here to use the room as an Andalite before, but now he had no reason to hide it.

Tobias picked up the sounds fairly quickly with his hawk senses.

< Hi. I guess this is better than nothing. At least I'm not constantly working to stay in the air like in the rest of the ship. And it's good to hunt even if they're only simulated mice that'll disappear as soon as I leave. Anyway,I wonder...sometime, could you make this place look like your world? I'd like to see it sometime. Or as close to seeing it as I'll probably get as long as we're stuck here. >

< This certainly isn't the ideal place for a hawk, > Ax agreed. < Have you seen the tree down in the 'City' area of the ship? It's a very famous tree, I think you would enjoy it. >

He looked up at Tobias, and his shorm would be able to see him doing the Andalite smile with his eyes. < I would like that very much, actually. I have not actually seen if Stacy can reproduce my home world yet -- I did not want to risk someone else entering the Sensorium and asking questions. >

< Not yet, but now that we aren't fighting Yeerks, I might chceck it out. Oh yeah, understandable, with our unexpected guests. I want to know what exactly was going on with them. How did they get here...were they collected like the rest of us? Or have the Yeerks stolen some new techology we don't know about yet? >

Ax shook his head. < I do not believe they were members of the crew. The Yeerk that infested Prince Cybil, Lirat-561, said that she felt that they had experience things and then had the memories wiped. Knowledge of technology they had never seen before, of science far beyond what they knew back home... She said that if they returned to our universe with the knowledge they had, they would be unstoppable. >

A chilling thought.

< Oh no. > He too felt chilled, sick. < Someone better tell me they're all dead. That we got them all. It does make sense that some of the...people...on this ship might have knowledge that isn't available in our world. What really scares me is the chance of them gaining any reality-hopping technology. If they tear down the walls or whatever, we're really screwed. And even if they don't get it, I still want to do everything I can to make sure none of them get back into our reality. >

< Lirat destroyed the Kandrona with a Dracon beam, > Ax said. < And it would not appear that Stacy has instant maple and ginger oatmeal on board. I believe that we can safely focus our energy on returning to our reality. >

Reality was a bit of a funny thing to be talking about when they were standing in a room that could make them believe that they were anywhere they chose to be.

< Good. Although it's hard not to wonder who's still in those pods. I wish Rachel would come out of one. Or any of the others would be good too. I can't help wondering also if there are any hork-bajir or taxxons back there anywhere. I'd hate to get any nasty surprises later on. >

< I just hope there is a way to get back. Answers aren't easy to get around here. >

< I almost hope that we are the only ones, > Ax said. < I would hate to think that Earth had been stripped of its protection. >

He did miss the other Animorphs, though. He knew how to work with them. He wasn't sure how to deal with some of the other people on board -- too many of them were reluctant to fall in under leadership of any sort. It reminded him worryingly of David, and that was not something he enjoyed being reminded of.

Andalite optimism made Ax want to believe that they would find a way back. Realistically, though...

< We have been in unusual situations before and found our way back. >

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