It is very important to me that Naomi helped the Hork-Bajir write a constitution, on about five different levels.

1) Naomi learning to respect the Hork-Bajir enough to realize they need a lawyer.

2) Naomi bringing her lawyer skills to the Hork-Bajir valley even as she lives in a shack in the woods to hide from a galactic war.

3) The Animorphs keep telling us that the Hork-Bajir are as simple as human toddlers, but there is no way a group of toddlers could write a constitution, with or without a lawyer to help them. They wouldn’t see the need for a constitution in the first place. Hork-Bajir, like humans, are political animals. (Let it be noted that Toby was not one of the Hork-Bajir working on the constitution.)

4) They were debating who gets to harvest bark where. However much it bothered Naomi (though she secretly loved it) the Hork-Bajir were planning out the distribution of food resources among them.

5) The Hork-Bajir don’t get nearly enough credit, not from the Animorphs, the Andalites, or the fandom.