Choices of One: Star Wars Legends (Star Wars - Legends) by Timothy Zahn

Author:Timothy Zahn [Zahn, Timothy]
Language: eng
Format: azw3
ISBN: 9780345532671
Publisher: Random House Worlds
Published: 2011-07-19T00:00:00+00:00

Leia had been hanging out the side of the speeder bus for what seemed like hours, and her eyes were aching with the task of staring continuously at the gravelly tunnel rolling by beneath them, when her comlink suddenly signaled.

“Han, stop,” she ordered, pulling herself back into the bus and setting down her glow rod.

Typically, infuriatingly, he ignored her, if anything picking up his speed a little. Sending a useless glare at the side of his head, Leia pulled out her comlink and thumbed it on. “Yes; Leia.”

“Finally,” Cracken’s voice growled. “Where have you been?”

“I don’t even know where we are now, let alone where we’ve been,” Leia admitted. “At least we’re close enough to civilization to get a comlink relay. Han, can we at least stop long enough to figure out where we are?”

“Not a good idea.” Han grunted, pointing back over his shoulder. “We’ve got company.”

Leia turned to look. In the distance behind them were a set of distant headlights. Several sets, actually. “How long have they been there?” she asked.

“Maybe three minutes,” Han told her. “They came out of a couple of the cross-tunnels at that last big intersection.”

“You think they’re after us?”

“You seen any other traffic around here?” he countered.

Leia grimaced. “Not since we left.”

“Leia?” Cracken called.

“We’ve picked up some tails,” Leia told him grimly. “At least three landspeeders, maybe more behind them.”

“And you’re in what?”

“A speeder bus,” Leia said. “An old one, too. Once they figure out it’s us, we’re not going to be able to outrun them.”

“They have to spot us first,” Han said. “This far ahead of them, with no lights showing, they might not realize we’re here.”

“You get all that?” Leia asked into her comlink.

“Enough of it,” Cracken said. “You said you just passed an intersection. Any idea which one it was?”

“I wasn’t looking in that direction,” Leia said. “Han? Did you get a number on that intersection?”

“The biggest of the tunnels was labeled AF-two-two-seven-five,” Han said. “I didn’t catch the others.”

“We just passed AF-two-two-seven-five,” Leia told Cracken. “But I don’t know which one we’re in right—”

“There’s another tunnel coming up,” Han interrupted, pointing ahead.

Leia peered out the windscreen, tensing. The tunnel markers at each of the intersections were small, and if they shot past it with their headlights still off they probably wouldn’t be able to read it.

But if they turned the lights on now, the landspeeders behind them would instantly spot them.

It was a gamble. But she and Han had no choice but to take it. Reaching to the console, she flipped on the lights.

“No!” Han barked, lunging toward the switch.

Leia batted his hand aside, her squinting eyes on the blaze of light in front of them. The tunnel marker flashed past—“RK-oh-one-four-oh,” she called into the comlink, reaching for the light control.

And winced as Han’s hand closed around hers. “Don’t bother,” he said, pushing her hand aside. “If they didn’t already know we were here, they do now. Might as well have the light.”

“Sorry,” she said, pulling her hand free of his grip.

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