Razor’s Edge: Star Wars (Empire and Rebellion) by Martha Wells

Author:Martha Wells
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub, azw3
Tags: sw-legends
ISBN: 9780345545688
Publisher: Del Rey
Published: 2013-09-24T04:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER FOURTEEN

LEIA WAS RELIEVED to see that one part of their plan had worked perfectly: as the pirate ship powered out of the bay, the sensors showed that all but a few of the ships in orbit had vanished.

They rendezvoused with the Millennium Falcon and the Aegis in the far outskirts of the system, at a safe distance from the mine, and after a quick comm conversation all three ships went into hyperspace with coordinates for Arnot Station. Once they were safely under way, Han used the pirate ship’s state-of-the-art hyperwave comm to call the Falcon again to give Chewbacca and Luke a quick rundown on everything that had happened. That done, Leia sat with Terae in the privacy of the small captain’s cabin where there was an auxiliary comm station, while she called the Aegis to tell Kelvan and the rest of the crew about Metara.

It was not a pleasant conversation.

After Terae was done, Leia called Han in the cockpit and asked him to take the precaution of locking down the second comm set from the main station, so no one could use it without their knowledge. She wasn’t particularly suspicious of anyone, but even Davit didn’t know all the freed prisoners, and she didn’t want to take the chance that there was someone who might be unduly tempted to expose their location to the Empire or to anyone else who might be interested. As she shut down the power on the station, she watched Terae. “Are you all right?”

Terae blinked and rubbed her face. “Yes, just … Yes. Do you want me to tell Davit they can have this cabin now?”

The ship was just barely big enough for all their passengers, most of whom were sleeping wherever they could find a chair or a bench or a quiet stretch of deck. The wounded had been given priority access to bunks, and Leia was letting Davit organize who got what was left over. She said, “Yes, if you would.”

Leia was glad they had ended up with Terae. For one thing, the Aegis was unlikely to bolt without her, and for another, Leia wanted Terae to spend a little personal time with her ship’s victims, and see close-up the consequences of the Aegis’s actions.

They left the cabin, and Terae went to find Davit as Leia headed for the cockpit. There was one more comm transmission she needed to make.

She passed the hatch to the small galley where Andevid was investigating the food supply with some of the Sullustans. She wasn’t certain if any of the former prisoners realized that Andevid was a pirate who had defected. Leia was letting them assume he had always been one of their group and had no intention of telling anyone otherwise.

In the corridor, she ran into Kifar, who asked her, “You need me to keep an eye on that comm station, Your High—Leia?”

“No, it’s not necessary. I had Han lock it down from the cockpit.” He was clearly looking for a way to be helpful; Leia sympathized, but she still needed to deal with him.

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