When Marco mildly freaked out, I tried my best not to look guilty, which probably made me look really guilty. I can lie to my mom no problem, but there's only so much pretending I can do. I probably upset my ex-best friend Melissa a couple of times through being blunt. I wanted to throw in my thoughts about which morph to acquire and get to it, but I was still stuck. I didn't know whether there was a limit to how many morphs we could get, but I guessed there wasn't one. So it didn't matter which animal I acquired today because I could always come back for the other one. But for some reason I couldn't explain, much like Jake's 'deja-vu', I kind of felt like this was momentous.
Like there were two paths I was choosing between. The path of brute force and battle with the bear...and a path that seemed a little more familiar to me, the path of agility, skills and secret strength with the jaguar. I felt like if I chose one or the other, that would be it. It was a stupid way to think, but Jake had said we wanted 'battle morphs', so we'd be using them in every single battle from now. So I guess it was a bit momentous. I didn't know what to do but I didn't want to reveal my inability to make such a simple choice. So I played it off as a game. I remembered that Sam had encouraged me to try out morphing so I looked at him, grinning calmly.
"Seems kind of unfair that Superman here doesn't get to play animal roulette." I had been grateful to him for talking me into trying out my first morph and stopping me from getting confused by the animal instincts. "So do you want to choose mine? I'm not that bothered." That was a lie. "But I was thinking between bear and jaguar. I mean, Marco's just chosen an animal that can punch things and Jake's picked a big cat..." I trailed off lightly as if this wasn't a big deal to me.
