...To get home from the mall we could either go a long way around, which is the safe way, or we could cut through this abandoned construction site and hope there weren't any ax murderers hanging around there. We took the long way...

...I was alone. Without a prince or a partner. A single Andalite aristh alone in the submerged dome of a once-great ship...<Aximili, you have to decide,> I told myself. I could stay in the dome and wait, a week, a month, a year till the Earthers or the Yeerks spotted me. Or I could venture out of the dome. I had the morphing power. If I could acquire one of these passing creatures I could leave, reach some shore, demorph and look to make a life among the aliens...

...We sat down on folding chairs. There must have been about forty or fifty people there...I spotted someone I hadn't noticed before. Jake. He was sitting two aisles up, next to his brother Tom...I watched the back of Jake's head as a speaker mounted two steps to a low stage. I watched him as the speaker talked to us about how the lonely individual in society had been over-emphasized in our culture. There was no true achievement unless you were part of something greater. You had to serve in order to achieve. You had to join with a larger reality. "That's why we are called The Sharing," the speaker said...

...I don't know why I ran after Marco, but I did. He was chasing a woman who he couldn't possibly be chasing -- his "dead" mother...Marco and I reached the revolving door while she was still inside it, just exiting. Marco jumped into the next open section. That's when the woman yanked hard back on the door, spun it backward, caught Marco off-balance and nailed him in the face with the brass push-bar...

....I was following Tom. This thing happened on TV, on the news. Suddenly there's this alien-looking thing. Very weird...Tom goes straight for the TV studio. And he has a gun...At the TV station, he shot someone. Two cops were with him. They helped him...They grabbed everyone at the station and hustled them out of there, and Tom was in charge...Then Chapman showed up...And this guy named Mr. Visser. And Tobias...