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The Chee have been hidden from humans for thousands of years and have technology beyond the Yeerks. The Hork-Bajir valley remained hidden from the Yeerks until the final stages of the war. A human billionaire could not have found either. That's not even mentioning how Cassie would have exposed all of them had she been infested by any other Yeerk.
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* RecklessPacifist: Cassie refuses to kill Aftran because this somehow means killing Karen too, never mind that Karen is a five-year-old girl easily overpowered by any individual Animorph, and they have allies like the free Hork-Bajir and the Chee who could easily contain up to an adult Hork-Bajir Controller for however long it takes to starve the Yeerk. She allows Aftran to infest her instead, putting her fellow Animorphs, their families, the free Hork-Bajir, and the Chee all at risk of Yeerk enslavement or extermination.
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...except Karen was the daughter of a billionniare and they could not have easily have just hid her without the Yeerks AND her father looking for her and drawing attention to Cassie and the rest of the group.
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* RecklessPacifist: Cassie refuses to kill Aftran because this somehow means killing Karen too, never mind that Karen is a five-year-old girl easily overpowered by any individual Animorph, and they have allies like the free Hork-Bajir and the Chee who could easily contain up to an adult Hork-Bajir Controller for however long it takes to starve the Yeerk. She allows Aftran to infest her instead, putting her fellow Animorphs, their families, the free Hork-Bajir, and the Chee all at risk of Yeerk enslavement or extermination.
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* AndNowForSomeoneCompletelyDifferent: The book switches to Jakes point of view after Cassie morphs into a caterpillar.
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* AndNowForSomeoneCompletelyDifferent: The book switches to Jakes Jake's point of view after Cassie morphs into a caterpillar.
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* StatusQuoIsGod: Natural metamorphosis can reset the morphing clock, allowing Cassie to demorph from a butterfly after trapping herself as a caterpillar. Karen's father makes a donation to Cassie's father, allowing him to keep the Wildlife Rehabilitation Clinic afloat. Aftran keeps her word and abandons Karen to return to being a blind, helpless slug in the Yeerk pool instead of selling out the Animorphs to Visser Three. However, this book does shake up the status quo a little by revealing that Yeerks are not truly AllwaysChaoticEvil and directly sets the stage for the Yeerk Peace Movement that will have an important role future books.
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* StatusQuoIsGod: Natural metamorphosis can reset the morphing clock, allowing Cassie to demorph from a butterfly after trapping herself as a caterpillar. Karen's father makes a donation to Cassie's father, allowing him to keep the Wildlife Rehabilitation Clinic afloat. Aftran keeps her word and abandons Karen to return to being a blind, helpless slug in the Yeerk pool instead of selling out the Animorphs to Visser Three. However, this book does shake up the status quo a little by revealing that Yeerks are not truly AllwaysChaoticEvil AlwaysChaoticEvil and directly sets the stage for the Yeerk Peace Movement that will have an important role future books.
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* StatusQuoIsGod: Natural metamorphosis can reset the morphing clock, allowing Cassie to demorph from a butterfly after trapping herself as a caterpillar. Karen's father makes a donation to Cassie's father, allowing him to keep the Wildlife Rehabilitation Clinic afloat. Aftran keeps her word and abandons Karen to return to being a blind, helpless slug in the Yeerk pool instead of selling out the Animorphs to Visser Three.
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* StatusQuoIsGod: Natural metamorphosis can reset the morphing clock, allowing Cassie to demorph from a butterfly after trapping herself as a caterpillar. Karen's father makes a donation to Cassie's father, allowing him to keep the Wildlife Rehabilitation Clinic afloat. Aftran keeps her word and abandons Karen to return to being a blind, helpless slug in the Yeerk pool instead of selling out the Animorphs to Visser Three. However, this book does shake up the status quo a little by revealing that Yeerks are not truly AllwaysChaoticEvil and directly sets the stage for the Yeerk Peace Movement that will have an important role future books.
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Cassie quits the Animorphs after she kills a Hork-Bajir Controller and her father's veterinary clinic nearly gets shut down.
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* TenMinuteRetirement: The stress of the war catches up to Cassie and she quits the team, telling the others that the Wildlife Rehabilitation Clinic will be shut down soon and they can't meet there anymore.
* AndNowForSomeoneCompletelyDifferent: The book switches to Jakes point of view after Cassie morphs into a caterpillar.
* AppealToInherentNature: Aftran defends the Yeerks' parasitic conquest by comparing it to human predation of cows and pigs.
* EnemyMine: Cassie and Aftran are lost in the woods with an escaped leopard on the loose. They have to work together to survive, even after Aftran realizes that Cassie is an "Andalite bandit".
* HonorBeforeReason: Rather than let Marco kill Karen to kill Aftran, Cassie instead allows Aftran to infest her, giving away all the Animorph's secrets to a Yeerk.
* JerkassBall: Marco is written as particularly cruel in this book. Special notes go to him mocking Cassie about having torn out a Hork-Bajir's throat like it's the first time the Animorphs have knowingly killed someone, and immediately trying to kill Karen instead of the more logical route of starving the Yeerk out of her, because somehow a Controller with a five-year-old host body is that much of a threat.
* KillTheHostBody: Discussed, though not for the first time. The Animorphs have killed Controllers before, usually only sparing their hosts pitying thoughts, but the realization that they do this drives Cassie to abandon the Animorph's mission.
* MySpeciesDothProtestTooMuch: What allows the plot of this book to work out for Cassie is that Aftran is as much of a pacifist as she is.
* RecklessPacifist: Cassie refuses to kill Aftran because this somehow means killing Karen too, never mind that Karen is a five-year-old girl easily overpowered by any individual Animorph, and they have allies like the free Hork-Bajir and the Chee who could easily contain up to an adult Hork-Bajir Controller for however long it takes to starve the Yeerk. She allows Aftran to infest her instead, putting her fellow Animorphs, their families, the free Hork-Bajir, and the Chee all at risk of Yeerk enslavement or extermination.
* ShapeshifterModeLock: Cassie traps herself in caterpillar morph to prove to Aftran about how serious she is about empathizing with the Yeerks. Unlike most ''nothlits'', the caterpillar has a way out...
* StatusQuoIsGod: Natural metamorphosis can reset the morphing clock, allowing Cassie to demorph from a butterfly after trapping herself as a caterpillar. Karen's father makes a donation to Cassie's father, allowing him to keep the Wildlife Rehabilitation Clinic afloat. Aftran keeps her word and abandons Karen to return to being a blind, helpless slug in the Yeerk pool instead of selling out the Animorphs to Visser Three.
* YouKilledMyFather: The Yeerk in the Hork-Bajir that Cassie killed was Aftran's brother, adding to her angst.
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* TenMinuteRetirement: The stress of the war catches up to Cassie and she quits the team, telling the others that the Wildlife Rehabilitation Clinic will be shut down soon and they can't meet there anymore.
* AndNowForSomeoneCompletelyDifferent: The book switches to Jakes point of view after Cassie morphs into a caterpillar.
* AppealToInherentNature: Aftran defends the Yeerks' parasitic conquest by comparing it to human predation of cows and pigs.
* EnemyMine: Cassie and Aftran are lost in the woods with an escaped leopard on the loose. They have to work together to survive, even after Aftran realizes that Cassie is an "Andalite bandit".
* HonorBeforeReason: Rather than let Marco kill Karen to kill Aftran, Cassie instead allows Aftran to infest her, giving away all the Animorph's secrets to a Yeerk.
* JerkassBall: Marco is written as particularly cruel in this book. Special notes go to him mocking Cassie about having torn out a Hork-Bajir's throat like it's the first time the Animorphs have knowingly killed someone, and immediately trying to kill Karen instead of the more logical route of starving the Yeerk out of her, because somehow a Controller with a five-year-old host body is that much of a threat.
* KillTheHostBody: Discussed, though not for the first time. The Animorphs have killed Controllers before, usually only sparing their hosts pitying thoughts, but the realization that they do this drives Cassie to abandon the Animorph's mission.
* MySpeciesDothProtestTooMuch: What allows the plot of this book to work out for Cassie is that Aftran is as much of a pacifist as she is.
* RecklessPacifist: Cassie refuses to kill Aftran because this somehow means killing Karen too, never mind that Karen is a five-year-old girl easily overpowered by any individual Animorph, and they have allies like the free Hork-Bajir and the Chee who could easily contain up to an adult Hork-Bajir Controller for however long it takes to starve the Yeerk. She allows Aftran to infest her instead, putting her fellow Animorphs, their families, the free Hork-Bajir, and the Chee all at risk of Yeerk enslavement or extermination.
* ShapeshifterModeLock: Cassie traps herself in caterpillar morph to prove to Aftran about how serious she is about empathizing with the Yeerks. Unlike most ''nothlits'', the caterpillar has a way out...
* StatusQuoIsGod: Natural metamorphosis can reset the morphing clock, allowing Cassie to demorph from a butterfly after trapping herself as a caterpillar. Karen's father makes a donation to Cassie's father, allowing him to keep the Wildlife Rehabilitation Clinic afloat. Aftran keeps her word and abandons Karen to return to being a blind, helpless slug in the Yeerk pool instead of selling out the Animorphs to Visser Three.
* YouKilledMyFather: The Yeerk in the Hork-Bajir that Cassie killed was Aftran's brother, adding to her angst.
