Last Shot by Daniel José Older

Author:Daniel José Older [Older, Daniel José]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Novela, Ciencia ficción, Fantástico
Publisher: ePubLibre
Published: 2018-03-03T05:00:00+00:00

“This is how I see it,” Han said, sipping lukewarm caf and leaning forward like he was about to reveal a major galactic secret, “the way you can tell that Sana likes me?”

Chewie groaned and looked out the window at the various cruisers docked outside.

“She doesn’t act like it. Not at all.” Han wiggled his eyebrows. “The opposite even! But you know…that’s how you know! Am I right?”

They’d gone through all the stages of a stakeout several times already, from the initial thrill and a tasty meal (steak!) (eggs!) (caf!); to the lull, when things settle in; to abject boredom and a general desire for something to happen, anything at all to happen, even something unrepentantly tragic just so long as it’s not more sitting around staring across the table at the same increasingly ugly person and all the neon blinking signs and irritated waitresses of Freerago’s. Then (more caf!) (fritzle fries!) (crumdgeon snippets) (caf!) Han had caught a second wind while Chewie seemed to swing into a melancholy even deeper than the usual grumpiness that took him over whenever Han tried to talk about his love life.

Or lack thereof.

Or whatever.

But Han was feeling good (caf!). He’d settled on a theory and now he was extracting evidence from his current situation to back up the theory. What fun!

“Just think about it, Chewie,” Han insisted. “She came and found me.”

Rarrghrkk, Chewie pointed out without taking his eyes off the infinite stars beyond the docked cruisers.

“Okay, yeah, us. Fine. But still. There are how many smugglers and general lowlifes wandering the galaxy right now? Thousands! Especially since the Empire basically gives us free rein to ramble and roll how we please long as we stay out of their way. But of all the smugglers and lowlifes out there in this thriving criminal underground, she!” He slammed his palm down. “Found!” Again. “Me!”

Han sat back triumphantly, like he’d just laid out a perfect sabacc hand, and then nodded approvingly at his own unstoppable logic.

Chewie didn’t bother answering; possibly, Han thought, so as not to encourage him. Didn’t matter. Han knew he was right. It was either she was secretly in love with him and had used the excuse of a good score to go seek him out, thus beginning their long, adventurous life running scams and avoiding the law together while making sweet love on piles of creds (caf!), or, it was fate! It was fate, or maybe the Force, if you believed in that kind of thing (Han didn’t), that had tossed them into each other’s paths.

Fate, Han thought, letting his gaze slide along the various denizens of Freerago’s. Most notably: Two young Ithorians sat in a nearby booth, those squinty eyes on top of their long, brown faces blinking lovingly at each other over a single blue milkshake that they both sipped at from different straws. At the counter, an Imperial admiral cast them a glare of equal parts disgust and fascination. And perhaps a little bit of longing. He was

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