Allegiance: Star Wars Legends (Star Wars - Legends) by Timothy Zahn

Author:Timothy Zahn [Zahn, Timothy]
Language: eng
Format: azw3
ISBN: 9780307795830
Publisher: Random House Worlds
Published: 2011-06-28T00:00:00+00:00

Chapter Seventeen

ABRUPTLY, THE AERIAL BOMBARDMENT FELL SILENT. Still pressed against the big ground-mover, Mara stretched out with her senses. The air was filled with acrid smoke, and she could hear the crackle of flames coming from at least three places in the near distance. But the turbolaser fire from the sky had definitely ceased.

She didn’t know why, but with the respite came the chance to get moving. Stepping carefully over the piles of rubble around her, she headed for the corridor. The firetrap Caaldra had sprung on them had mostly burned itself out, leaving its own contribution of eye-stinging smoke drifting through the air. Blinking a few times, Mara crossed back to where she’d left Tannis.

He was still there, lying motionlessly on the smoking floor. “Tannis?” she said, shoving her lightsaber back into her belt and crouching down beside him.

There was no answer, but at least he was still alive. Mara took a moment to assess the damage—mostly burns from Caaldra’s firetrap—then made her way back to the wrecked command center to retrieve the room’s emergency medpac.

There was no time to deal with the burns themselves, not with their attackers presumably preparing for Round Two. Selecting a set of military-grade painkillers and stimulants, she injected them into an undamaged section of Tannis’s arm. Within half a minute he was awake, blinking up through the smoke at her. “How do you feel?” Mara asked.

“Like I’m dying,” Tannis murmured, his voice sounding eerily dream-like. “What happened?”

“Caaldra left us a little surprise,” Mara told him, deciding for the moment to skip over the bombardment. “You feel up to a little walk?”

“I don’t know,” Tannis said. “How far are we going?”

“I thought we’d stop by your emergency bunker for a minute, then head back to the ship and get you to the medical capsule.”

“I can try,” Tannis said. Grimacing with the effort, he got a hand on the floor and tried to push.

“It’s okay,” Mara said, stretching out with the Force and raising him up. “All you have to do is point. I can do the heavy lifting.”

“I forgot,” Tannis said, smiling weakly. “Where are we again?”

“Outside the main control center.”

“Right.” Tannis peered around. “It’s that way,” he said, pointing down the corridor in the direction they’d been heading when Caaldra had sprung his trap. Pulling the injured pirate to her side, Mara got a steadying arm around his waist and they set off.

The base was a mess. At least five of the buildings had been completely demolished, a couple of them still burning furiously, the others nothing more than smoldering debris. There were plenty of bodies scattered around, too. Some of the pirates were fully dressed, but others seemed to have been asleep in their bunks when the attack came. At first Mara wondered about their lack of preparedness and sensor protection until it occurred to her that the three men Brock and Gilling had killed in the control center had probably been the ones responsible for spotting trouble and sounding the alert.

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