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A week after he had returned to his friends Ax was still not sure how he got back. He just remembered that he had suddenly stood in front of Loren´s house after having been gone for several weeks. Of course they had been worried, which made Ax angry, though he had no idea why.
Currently he was sitting in Loren´s kitchen, watching her cooking. He heard the others talking and laughing in the living room and felt that he did not belong to them anymore.
It was like an invisible barrier had been placed between him and the others he used to call his friends. Since yesterday he had constantly to fight the urge to attack them. He slowly got up and walked out in the garden, where he stood looking at the plants, until someone touched his shoulder. He did not even turn around as he hit the person behind him as hard as he could. When he heard a body hit the wall of the house, he smiled and immediately felt better.
He walked away, not bothering to look behind him. An hour later he found himself at the entrance of the Yeerk pool at the mall and had no idea why he had come here. He watched himself going down the stairs, entering the pool complex. As usual there were Controllers everywhere. Normally Ax would have thought of them as the enemy but now he almost felt like he belonged here, which scared him.
He calmly walked up to the entrance of the pool and watched the hosts screaming as they were pulled to the cages, without feeling anything than complete disregard. He tried to remind himself that they were sentient beings, but with little success, his former view on things was twisting. The longer he watched the more he felt like one of these Controllers, even though he had no Yeerk in his head.
Whatever Visser One had done with him, this was clearly the result of it. But as much as he hated this, he also knew he did not have the strength to fight it alone. He needed the help of his friends, but it was unlikely they would come looking for him after what he had done. Without thinking, he aimed his tail on a Hork-Bajir standing next to him, who was hit in the chest and fell to the ground, screaming. The Yeerk slithered out of his ear and one of the human controllers nearby picked it up and carried it to the pool.