Well, since you wanted status updates that's just what you'll get, status updates. I am maybe sort of kind of hopefully about halfway through writing the final chapter (roughly) and I figured that since it'll be a bit longer then I would like before I post the entire final chapter up I'd give all my devoted fans an RAF sneak peak at a portion of the new chapter. So, enjoy! The full chapter is gonna be up when it's done.
<So?> I said back in response. <That still does not prove anything!>
With a strange facial expression, some sort of mixture between frustration and disappointment, Prince Jake continued. “But it did get me to start wondering. And to get a definitive answer I asked Tobias to keep an eye on you for a few nights just to see if anything weird was going on.”
I had both stalk eyes pointed at Tobias the entire time while my two main eyes were pointed at Prince Jake. It was only when Prince Jake reached this point that Tobias finally began to look back down at me from the rafters. And all he had to say in his defense was, <Sorry Ax.>
I was now quite angry with him. So angry in fact that I hadn’t even really heard the last thing that Prince Jake had said. But he continued on regardless.
“The first night nothing happened, but on the second night he saw you leave your scoop around 10:30 and begin flying towards town. Once you got there he said that you flew into an alley and eventually morphed into Rachel. And once you did that you went into a nearby building and didn’t come out for quite awhile.”
It was then that I knew I was defeated. My gamble had not paid off. Prince Jake had known even before he called this meeting that I was the one professionally mating.
I felt a great deal of emotion at that moment. I was still angry at Tobias for doing what he did. I was also angry at Prince Jake for trying to trap me in a lie (although now I realize he was just trying to give me an opportunity to be honest about the situation). I was also frightened about what my failed gamble had done to the other Animorph’s views about me. Did they trust me less now than before? Would Prince Jake enact some sort of punishment on me for my actions? And finally I was disappointed that I would probably never mate again. I had grown so fond of it over the past Human month or so that I didn’t think I could just stop doing it all of a sudden.
I was quiet for quite a long time and Prince Jake just waited patiently for my response. Eventually some of my anger and other emotions began to slowly fade away and I finally, very weakly, said, <I am very sorry for trying to deceive you Prince Jake. I have been the one who has been professionally mating over the past few Earth weeks.>
I didn’t have a chance to continue any further though. As soon as those words were transmitted to the other Animorphs I heard Rachel say, “I’m gonna kill him. I’m gonna ****ing kill him.”
