"You expected a competent government? Dude, did you go temporarily insane?" Marco said, rolling his eyes. Although really, in a way he'd been the same, at first. Sure, he hadn't expected the Council to be great, but he had at least expected them to not let Yeerks go running around controlling people. So much for that idea.

"But you can throw it off?" Marco said, seizing on that piece of information. If it could be thrown off, it meant there was a way out. "How?"