However he takes comfort in his relationship with Rachel and she kisses him for the first time. After the battle Tobias continues to question who and what he is. In the battle he persuades Rachel not to kill Taylor, so as not sink to her level. Tobias is rescued by Ax and the other Animorphs. At one point she tries to kill Marco and Jake and take control of the Animorphs.

He reminds Tobias that he is part of a great tradition of warriors in order to comfort him before his death. The Separation is the thirty-second book in the Animorphs series. Tobias is spoken to by his father Elfangor who shares with him his own memories of hardship, battle, his moments of questioning himself and his own actions. These images are supposed to be passed through DNA. Here, he experienced an Utzum, later explained by Ax to be a vision ancient Andalites believed happened at the moment of death to comfort those crossing over.

He sees painful memories of childhood neglect or battle, after seeing pleasant peaceful memories. He almost goes insane and nearly dies after receiving heightened, alternating doses of painful and pleasant sensations and memories. He is then tortured by the sadistic Taylor with a machine that controls the parts of the brain that induce pain and pleasure. Tobias, alone and trapped, tries to get demorphed unsuccessfully since he is already demorphed. However, sub-visser Taylor gave them an anesthetic so she couldn't grip to Tobias and fell to the floor. Rachel was supposed to be with him in fly morph to be able to rescue him and tell the rest where the lab was. Tobias acquires Ax-thus allowing him to 'demorph' and reinforce the impression that he is a genuine Andalite-and then gets captured by the Yeerks. Tobias comes up with a plan to trick the Yeerks into thinking that it doesn't work if they capture him, they will try to use it on his hawk form, but hawk is his true form now. The Yeerks have finished their anti-morphing ray and want to test it. It is known to have been ghostwritten by Ellen Geroux. The Illusion is the 33rd book in the Animorphs series, written by K.A.

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