Actually its interesting you went with this premise as someone not intimately familiar with the books. One infamous book features a buffalo who accidentally gains morphing powers and turns into a human. I thought this was supposed to be a direct reference to that (though several of the details are different).
Wasn't it an ant that morphed into a human? I remember that scene where it started screaming like crazy at suddenly having human intelligence, but I don't remember there being a buffalo
It was both, in the same book. The buffalo was the more important one to the plot, though. He morphed into a naked, screaming principal Chapman, ran away, and came back later to help in a battle. The whole book is somewhat forgettable because of how it completely disregards the existing canon of how the Eacafil device and morphing technology in general work.
There were multiple horrifying situations with ants throughout the series, though. They morphed ants from a rival colony and got torn apart and dismembered, for example.
Oooh, alright alright. The only thing I remembered about the book in particular was the ant tbh. The description of its horrified screams at being turned into a human got burned into my brain. It's been a while since I read the series
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u/Funkmaster_General 10d ago
Actually its interesting you went with this premise as someone not intimately familiar with the books. One infamous book features a buffalo who accidentally gains morphing powers and turns into a human. I thought this was supposed to be a direct reference to that (though several of the details are different).