Razor's Edge: Star Wars Legends (Star Wars: Empire and Rebellion Book 1) by Martha Wells

Author:Martha Wells [Wells, Martha]
Language: eng
Format: azw3
ISBN: 9780345545688
Publisher: Random House Worlds
Published: 2013-09-24T00:00:00+00:00

Han and Sian found a wide, arched hatch that opened into the loading dock. They had seen this area from the end of the docking ring corridor, but then it had been filled with bickering pirates. Han had been hoping to find it empty, with everybody sensibly scrambling to get back to their ships, but the blasterfire that echoed through it told him that this particular hope was in vain.

He reached the hatch first, put his back to the wall, and took a careful look around the edge of the seal. Sian took the opposite side.

Bodies, blasted droids, and broken pressure crates lay strewn across the big loading bay. Just above it, where the ramp curved up to the docking bays, there was a blaster battle raging. One group had taken cover behind an old ore cart and a broken cargo lifter and were firing up at a second group, which held the entrance to the docking ring. Han couldn’t tell how many were up there; they were hiding behind piles of broken droids and consoles on both sides of the entrance. A third group, which seemed to be shooting at both the other groups, was stationed out along the gallery just below the row of docking bay entrances that overlooked the loading area, firing from the cover of a mound of crates and storage barrels. The cargo that had apparently sparked the battle—little lumps of varicolored metal, spilled out of a scattering of broken security crates—was strewn across the far end of the loading area.

“Oh, you have to be kidding,” Sian muttered. “Why don’t they just run?”

“Because if they had any sense, they wouldn’t be pirates,” Han told her. He felt for his comlink and realized it was back at Viest’s control center. “You got a comlink?” She tossed him one and he tuned it to the Aegis’s frequency. “Aegis, come in, this is Solo.”

“This is Aegis,” Kelvan’s relieved voice said. “Where are you? Fera and Allian and the others said they lost contact with Captain Metara, and we haven’t been able to raise anyone on the comlink.”

“Yeah, we had to take another way out, and we couldn’t get a signal through.” There was no time to update Kelvan on everything that had happened; anyway, there was no way Han was going to be the one to give him the bad news about his captain. “We’re breaking the prisoners out now. What’s the situation in the docking ring?”

“Not good. Some of the ships farther down have taken off, but we can hear fighting out in the corridor. More ships are leaving orbit every moment, so if you can get to us, we should be able to make it out of here.”

That was a pretty big “if” at the moment. These pirates were grabbing anything that wasn’t nailed down and shooting anything that moved. If they tried to make their way through the cargo area, Han thought the chances were good that they would get shot as potential rivals for the goods.

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