Galaxy's Edge: Black Spire (Star Wars) by Dawson Delilah S

Author:Dawson, Delilah S. [Dawson, Delilah S.]
Language: eng
Format: azw3
Publisher: Random House Publishing Group
Published: 2019-08-26T16:00:00+00:00

THE NEXT DAY, DESPITE THE FACT that she’d recently been poisoned and that the enemy had arrived planetside, Vi still went to work for Savi. She’d made the commitment, they still needed the money, and she had a feeling that the old scrapper and his junkyard would somehow prove to be a great help to the Resistance. Although she longed to slip away, find Kath’s base, and destroy it, she also knew that such a brash action would only serve to convince the First Order that she was actually here and that Batuu was worth investigating. So she had to stick to the standard spy protocol: lie low, act normal, and strategize.

While she was gone, Dolin was to hook the empty trailer up to his crankbike and haul Archex and Pook from the transport camp over to the ruins, where the droid would charge up using their returned power droids and begin unloading all the cargo while Dolin focused on disabling the defenses inside the cave system. As for Archex, Vi assigned him the task of deciding how to organize and set up their new facility. He needed something to do, desperately. Carving wooden convorees for the toy shop wasn’t going to fill the hole in his soul. The man needed a purpose.

Out at the scrapyard, Vi chose a spot a little away from the other Gatherers. She was painfully aware that someone in town had alerted the First Order to her presence, and even if she told herself it was impossible, it very well could’ve been one of her smiling, happy co-workers. Ylena sat near her again, but Vi would’ve bet anything that Ylena wasn’t the problem. She, like Savi, seemed to have an almost spiritual calm about her, as if she glowed from within and radiated tranquility.

When the others were working elsewhere, Vi lowered her voice and said, “Ylena, do you think one of the other scrappers might’ve turned me in to the First Order? There’s an officer in town looking for me, and he knows who I am.”

Ylena’s mouth turned down. “I’ve heard that troopers were making trouble in the market. Their officer was seen going into the cantina. But I promise you it wasn’t one of us. I know we like to gossip, but no one here possesses the avarice to call down such trouble on our home just for money. As I think you’ve seen, Savi doesn’t hire people like that.”

“But he hired me,” Vi argued. “A complete stranger from offworld, one who already had a chip on her shoulder. I look like a troublemaker.”

At that, Ylena dimpled. “There are people who stir the pot for personal gain, and then there are people who cause trouble because they have a higher calling. Savi can tell the difference. We all can. You have the gleam.”

Looking up from the old, tarnished medal in her hand, Vi raised an eyebrow. “The gleam?”

“That’s what we call it when the Force has taken a shine to someone. The gleam. It’s a little like an aura, but…it doesn’t lie.

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