Conquest by Keyes Greg

Author:Keyes, Greg [Keyes, Greg]
Language: eng
Format: azw3, epub, mobi
Published: 0101-01-01T00:00:00+00:00

He tried to sit up, then he saw the blood, spattered on the dead leaves and along the sleeve of his flight suit.

A Yuuzhan Vong stepped from out of the bushes, holdíing something about the size of a carbine, a tube that swelled into a sort of stock or magazine.

Grunting, Anakin struggled to his feet. The whole left side of his body felt curiously numb. He reached back and found that a hole had been gouged in his shoulder. He felt something hard in the hole and pulled it out.

It was a mass of cracked chiton.

His legs threatened to buckle again. The Yuuzhan Vong was advancing, weapon trained on him. All around him, Anakin could hear more enemies rushing toward him.

Oddly enough, he still didn’t feel frightened or angry. He didn’t feel much of anything, except the Force.

And a familiar presence, something not too far away. Not one presence, really, but one that was legion.

“Two can play that game,” Anakin whispered.

He dropped his weapon and held his hands up. “Nice going,” he told the Yuuzhan Vong. “You shot me in the back with a bug. Very brave.”

He could see three or four of them now, with his peíripheral vision.

He hadn’t expected the warrior to answer, but he did, in Basic.

“I am Field Commander Sinan Mat. I salute your bravery, Jeedai. I must deny you the embrace of death in battle. For this I apologize.”

A little closer, Anakin thought. If they don’t mean to kill me…

“Will you fight me, Sinan Mat? Just you and me?”

“That is my desire. It cannot be. I am to bring you living to the shapers.”

“I’m sorry to hear that. And… well, I’d feel worse about this if you hadn’t shot me in the back, but… forígive me.”

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