trans_channel | PSA: this is your brain on Yeerks

My name is Jake. I'm here to tell you that there is a Yeerk among you. His name is Iniss 335, and his host is Tom Berenson. My brother.

I'm new to this ship, but not to the war against the Yeerk invasion. I'm told that some of you are sympathetic to the Yeerks, that you pity them, and I understand.

I'm not going to tell you that you're wrong. I can't make that call for you. But you know what the Yeerks are. You know how they control a host so completely, so perfectly, that you can't tell who around you is free and who's helpless in his own mind. The one you don't know is Tom, who has been imprisoned for more than three years. Imagine being unable to move a single muscle, voice a single thought, imagine your body a tool for your captor, used to enslave everyone you care about. Imagine that your thoughts are no longer your own, that someone else can rifle through them at will, and does: uses your knowledge to fool your friends, find their weaknesses, and your every fantasy to shame you.

I know that my brother is strong, but I also know that he is suffering, and I would like that suffering to stop. If you still feel that all creatures have a right to live as they choose, then so be it. But I hope you won't mistake Iniss for the victim here.

If you see Tom, I would appreciate any information.

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You could stop rubbing in the fact that Tom's not free. You got a sister, right? How do you think you'd feel if she'd spent years as a prisoner inside her own head, and just as she's about to be freed some idiot ghost girl comes along and decides that no, she can keep being a slave?

If my sister was enslaved, I'd have bigger problems to think about then whether or not I was being reminded about it. Such as, oh, I don't know, freeing her.

Were you not paying attention the last time you were poking around in my head? That's what we were doing. And Iniss knows we're onto him now, so you can betting trapping him again isn't going to be easy. We don't know when we'll get another opportunity, alright?

...Look, right now we've got no way of communicating with Tom. Iniss won't ever let anyone else talk to him. And as much as I'd love to have anyone other than you talking to him, you're the only person I know who can actually bypass Iniss. If you see him, can you find out how Tom is?

If Tom is suffering, that implies that he still has a conscious mind, which suggests that yes, I can.

Yeah, he'll be conscious. Yeerk's hosts always are.

Thanks.

It's the least I can do, I suppose.

Just be careful what you tell him. Whatever Tom knows, Iniss does too. Don't tell him I can morph.

It doesn't seem likely to come up in conversation. Where is he?

We don't know. He's possibly with some girl who can go through walls. Just keep an eye out for him.

I will.

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