ah i love this story ... are you ever going to continue? you can't just leave it at that :(

his looks like it would be a good story except for one thing.

essenially everything in thoughtspeak is missing.

like in this little peice of it

We had traveled in my ship, my Jahar, each thoroughly tired of the others before the first day was out. There was a mission - a slow mission. We were to drift toward the planet Earth at sub-relativistic speeds to return the humans to their home. But we didn’t; we didn’t, and Arbron was lost, Arbron and the other aristh, the one I sometimes dreamt had been Elfangor.

Aximili was staring at me now with his main eyes, his stalks scanning the trees around us. It was deeply ingrained paranoia that made him do that, something neither of the arisths had had. I started to tell him of this, but he interrupted, prompting,

This echo of my own thoughts startled me. Had I spoken aloud? It had been so long since I had had control over anything that I suspected I occasionally did voice my thoughts uncensored; Esplin had, of course, never let any words leave my head but those he had dictated, and I had fallen out of the habit of conversation. Even when I was free of him, it did not matter how loudly I screamed or how subversively I whispered, for my voice was contained within a device Esplin claimed was of his own making, and died unheard. For a brief time, I had been able to converse after a fashion with the psychic Leerans, unfettered by Esplin's grip on my voice, but that was long ago.

I repeated cautiously, testing the name against my memories of the Andalite, and of the aristh.

Aximili looked incredulous, and no wonder; the shame he believed I had admitted to was great. One did not simply forget a name, a name given by tradition stronger than law. The second and third names might be dropped by friends, or in conversation, but to simply forget was anathema. He paused, then nodded. like?>

His use of the humans' expression - a nod and the all-encompassing "okay" - surprised me. Had he even noticed, or was it so ingrained in him as to pass out of his mind without thought? I wondered anew if there was any hope for Aximili's plans to return to the homeworld. Even to one who had lived with an alien in his head for so many years, he seemed at times incredibly foreign. Aximili was not human, of course, but neither was he any longer wholly Andalite.

I insisted, feeling suddenly that it was very important for someone to understand. Aximili was no longer fully Andalite, yet was I either, at that?

Aximili interrupted harshly.

I replied in a similar tone, ignoring Aximili's flinch of surprise.

I can barely understand i because what their actually saying is missing. Is that done on porpouse?

This is so good, but it's KILLING me that the dialogue is largely missing. Is there anywhere else that I can read it?

I really like this! Alloran always interested me as a character, and it's fascinating to read from his POV.

However, it looks like you've lost some dialogue, I assume because of FFnet's formatting rules. Is there any chance you can edit it back in?

wow, this is really really good. please keep writing it.

I don't think that I ever reviewed this, and I'm surprised. I really like this story, and I'm glad that someone picked up the story with Alloran. He's the most curious character in the story, I think. And my favorite one because there's really a lot to write about him, since he was there from beginning to end.

Ooh very nice. I always love bits from Esplin's pov. He's such an interesting character. Great work. I love the misunderstanding with Alloran about Loren and Rachel.
-T.

in response to the e-mail I got with your reply to mine:
Yuck, Harry Potter...I'm proud to say I've never read a single book. I'll definitely stick with the Animorph group. :)

I love this story. It's extremely well-written and detailed, as if KA Applegate was writing this herself...if, and no offense to her, not better. :)
Please update this whenever you've got the chance.
(Formerly reviewing as "M&M" I think). :)

They worked just fine.

I love how you're piecing all of this together. I think everyone who read these series was interested in how all this played out. Please continue when you can.

This is amazing. I am completely riveted by this story. The emotions that have been weaved through it are so intense, so real. Excellent work.
-T.

Alloran talking to Esplin, Yeerk to Yeerk. Brother indeed.

This is a horrible cliffhanger to leave me on, how obscenely distracting.

I tried to restrain myself but I failed; please do update this soon.

This fan fic is so heart wrenching to read, its everything K.A failed to deliver.

No, but I wanted Alloran to keep narrating this! Another great job in any case.

You have a thing for C's huh? Its in the title, in the chapter titles too. I'm a chapter away from the last one you've written so far and I have a C for you, yes, please do continue.

Continue!

That said I'll try not to bring up this matter in the next review.

I love Arbron. Its a pity he's stuck in a Taxxon, I mean I know that's an irrelevant comment -especially because I hated him before he became a nothlit- I just feel so much for that particular character.

Meaningful conversations in this one, lot of fics have characters talking for the sake of talking but you've gone and animated them all. Its so refreshing.

I can't figure where you're going with Ax, the poor confused unbalanced Andalite. Oh wait sorry, Alloran's stooge. Heheh. Really fitting. Slightly out of character, but then his character was never really worked on in the books, I hope you break him down and build him up proper.

He's more human than that bird is - and the bird's more an Andalite than you! -- I just thought I'd mention how much I love this particular line.

You don't shy away from the awkward reunions, huh? Its what makes reading this so exciting. Arbron and Alloran, Ax and Estrid this time. I'm just as curious as Ax is to figure out just how Estrid managed to get on the ship.

Its been another fantastically written chapter. Please tell me this is going to get updated soon, seven chapters aren't nearly enough.