Assault at Selonia: Star Wars Legends (The Corellian Trilogy): Book 2 (Star Wars: The Corellian Trilogy - Legends) by Roger MacBride Allen

Author:Roger MacBride Allen [Allen, Roger MacBride]
Language: eng
Format: azw3
ISBN: 9780307796165
Publisher: Random House Worlds
Published: 2011-06-28T00:00:00+00:00

“I still wish we had brought the Millennium Falcon,” Q9 said. “This hovercar cannot defend itself.”

“And it’s awfully crowded in here,” Anakin complained from the rear seat. “When are we going to get there?”

“Uh-oh,” said Jaina, sitting in the front. “Jacen, get his mind on something else quick, or you’re going to hear that question about a zillion more times.”

The Duchess Marcha was sitting in the hovercar’s front seat, wedged in between Jaina and Chewbacca, who was doing the flying. She had never been quite so close to a Wookiee before, and she was not finding it to be the most relaxing of experiences. But she couldn’t understand why Jaina was so agitated by her little brother’s question. “Can’t you just tell him the answer and then ask him to be quiet?” she asked Jaina in a low voice. She was quite baffled by the skills required to manage a small human child. Besides which, she wouldn’t mind knowing how long it would be herself. It was not easy getting information out of Chewbacca.

“Doesn’t work that way,” Jaina whispered back. “Answering would just get him focused on the question, and he’d ask, ‘When are we going to get there now?’ two minutes from now. And two minutes after that, and after that.”

“I see,” said Aunt Marcha, though that was a bald-faced lie. Such strange creatures, these humans, the children far more so than the adults. How they had ever risen to a position of prominence in Galactic affairs was quite beyond her.

But at least the older ones knew how to manage the younger one. “Anakin!” Jacen said, having found a suitable distraction. “Look down there! See? That’s the Boiling Sea.”

Anakin, sitting in the seat behind Jacen, next to Q9, looked down at the dark water below. “I don’t see it boiling,” he objected.

“It doesn’t always boil,” Jacen said. “Only sometimes. In the summer. But Q9 will tell you all about it.”

“I will?” the droid asked.

“Yes, Q9,” Ebrihim said, from his seat next to Jacen. “You will. Quietly. That is an order.”

“Very well,” Q9 said, clearly unenthusiastic. The droid started telling Anakin all about how, in the summer months, the temperatures below could become high enough for part of the small, landlocked sea to boil, and how the winter snows and rains cooled and replenished it. For a wonder, Anakin listened, even when Q9 got to the part about the sea being a temporary feature that would no doubt vanish in a few thousand years due to upstream erosion.

Marcha shook her head once again. Why in the stars that sort of thing should be of interest to a small boy child she had no idea, but she was grateful just the same. The trip was getting a little long, but that was to be expected, flying an evasive route at night over land and sea at something close to treetop and wave-top level. Say what one might about his social skills, she was glad they had a pilot of Chewbacca’s skill on the job.

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