What did Jake say, then? Can someone get a direct quote?
Thanks to the help of a web page which I will not be disclosing, I have a quote from book 54 (as I don't own that book). The site I copied from does not distinguish between "audio speech" and <though speech>, so I'll be guessing when it comes to those <> symbols:
I realized I was no longer standing. I was flat on the floor. I heard my own slow breathing. I should be panting. Something striking at my face again and again. The cobra. Couldn't even see him. I had failed. Tom. Alive.
<Die, human,> he said. <Just die.>
<Rachel!> Tobias cried.
<Help me, Tobias,> I pleaded.
<l can't. . . I . . .>
He didn't understand. <Help me get him. Help me get him!>
<Okay. Okay. He's . . . your left paw, toward your face. Get ready. Has to be fast.>
<I'm ready.>
<Now!>
I jerked my paw, claws extended toward my face. Tom shrieked. I couldn't see him. But I felt something squirming. Like a worm on a fishhook. The snake was impaled on my claws.
<No!> Tom cried in outrage. I brought my paw to my mouth.
<Sorry,> I said vaguely.
<Jake, stop her!> the Yeerk screamed with Tom's mouth.
I bit down on the snake.
Which makes me wonder, why was it "
screamed with Tom's mouth" if Tom and his Yeerk are a snake at the moment? And does this mean that Tom died in a snake's body, with his Yeerk off somewhere in Z-space? That's worse than dying as a human with a Yeerk still in your head!