Tobias' condition is an anomaly in itself. Nobody has ever gotten their morphing powers back after turning into a Nothlit, so things are bound to be different for him. I'd guess that the reason why he can use thought-speak in his 'natural' hawk form is that it was originally a morph, and because he ended up staying that way, he can always use it like Ax, in an out of morph.
Because of this, Tobias should technically also be able to use thought-speak when he morphs a human, but for some reason K.A never went any further with this. It seems like she changed her mind on a lot of things and had a hard time keeping track of everything (who could blame her?)
Well, no, she showed him using thoughtspeak in human morph. In
The Resistance when he morphed to human to go with Jake to try to get the Trekkie campers to go away. While they were speaking, Tobias was making comments to Jake in thoughtspeak:
"Tobias and I had other business. I morphed,
and together we flew out of range of the construction
below. It was a short flight to the campsite.
We were careful to land far enough away so
68
that no one would see us demorph and morph in
Tobias's case.
Then we walked toward the brightly colored
tents. Thank God we could finally morph some
halfway decent clothes, the result of a whole lot
of experience. Boys in T-shirts and jeans generally
look a lot saner than boys in spandex.
We approached the campsite. A tall kid with
glasses spotted us first.
"Hi," he said.
"Hey," I answered.
Then we just stood there.
<Jake? Fearless leader? Do you have a plan,
or are you just going to smile and look stupid in
our morphing outfits?> Tobias said privately.
"Just be cool. I'll handle it," I whispered.
"I'm Jake," I said to the tall kid.
"Lewis Carpenter. I've had blisters for five
days."
"Huh. Bummer."
An adult stuck his head out of a tent. The guy
who had sighted me in his binoculars. "What are
you two boys doing so far out in the woods?" he
asked, stepping outside. "Where's your equipment?"
<Good question, Jake.>
"We're camped on the ridge," I said easily,
More silence and staring. This was getting
ridiculous.
"Look," I said. "We came to tell you we all
have to get out of here. We just met a ranger and
he told us the park is closed. There's a huge
storm coming this way. Guy said they're predicting
straight-line winds and tons of snow, enough
to strand us all. Everyone's got to pack up and
get out of the area before sundown."
A girl stood up from the group of kids sitting
around the campfire and came closer to us. She
was maybe Tom's age.
"It never snows this early in the year."
"Yeah, I know," I said quickly. "That's what's
so dangerous about this storm. No one's prepared.
I mean, who's gonna have cold-weather
gear? Right?"
The girl grinned.
"I'll be fine. I hiked Mount McKinley."
"Emily, Lewis?" The adult binocular guy. "Let
me handle this."
<They're not buying it,> Tobias said privately.
"Frostbite is bad news," I said, trying to
sound all serious and worried.
"Look," said binocular guy, "you boys need to
learn a thing or two about hikers' etiquette. People
need to trust one another in the wilderness.
You don't make up stories just to get someone
else's campsite.""
(Book 47: The Resistance, pg 68-70; RAF-scanned ebook)
Yeah! I've wondered about this once, too.
They must have used technological devices to augment their telepathic abilities. The Andalite military has their internal clock/compass gizmo and what was the deal with the Mirrowave call again?
Wish these things were more elaborated.
I never understood the internal clock thing to be a military device...I always took it to be a natural trait of the Andalite brain (being able to keep almost perfect time internally) that related to their natural superiority to humans in mathematics.
As far as the mirrorwave call, vice-versa. I used to assume it was some sort of mind-over-matter technique to amplify a short duration of thought speak. But now I would assume it's some sort of device that does the same thing.
