"I'm not unwilling to believe Iniss has some good in him," she says softly, like it's hard to have those words leave her mouth. Even Edriss had good in her, small as it was. Maybe if things had turned out differently, if Edriss hadn't been so involved in the military, maybe if she hadn't faked Eva's death, maybe, maybe Edriss could have become a tolerable specimen of Yeerks. Eva doesn't know anymore. "But nurturing that good in him will never be worth enough to justify making a slave of a child."

Eva shakes her head. "I don't have any idea about the bear. I wasn't involved." Even back in her world, the Animorphs had kept that whole mission pretty secret from any of the parents.