 In the book, she is on trial for treason, prosecuted by her enemy, Visser Three.Edriss 562 explains her backstory, from when she was inside her previous host, a Hork-Bajir designated Sub-Visser 409, stationed on the Hork-Bajir world, to when she hijacked a ship and eventually inhabited a female Hollywood actor, Jenny Lines, to her founding of The Sharing inside another host, Lore David Altman, to her current host, Eva, and her role in the Yeerk Empire.As an unidentified Animorph (who in the final book is revealed to be Rachel) lies on the brink of death, the Ellimist appears and recounts his origins as Azure Level, Seven Spar, Extension Two, Down-Messenger, Forty-One (Toomin) the Ketran and his transfiguration into the Ellimist as a final request to the dying Animorph.