Star Wars - Episode I Adventures 005 - The Ghostling Children by Dave Wolverton

Author:Dave Wolverton
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub
Published: 2000-01-01T00:00:00+00:00

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To play your own adventure, turn to the first page of the Game Book and follow the directions you find there.

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Anakin and his friends Dorn, Kitster, and Pala glided on their sand skimmers along the dark streets of Mos Espa toward the Palace of Gardulla the Hutt.

An eopie’s squawk echoed from the pour-stone walls of the slave quarters. Elsewhere, Anakin could hear a heavy clanking.

Though it was late, the cool wind on his face helped wake him. Dorn had roused him from a dead sleep and had outlined his plan to save the Ghostling children.

“All right, I’ll help,” Anakin had agreed, though he knew it was dangerous.

Really, he was just returning something that had been stolen. But could he really ever return the children? They were from Datar. They had no way to pay for passage home. How would he ever get them back to their parents?

Dorn and Kitster had brought him a Jawa’s robe made of sandstone-red homespun fibers. Anakin could smell the vermin odor of the Jawa who’d worn it.

Dorn had done more than dress them like Jawas. He’d brought light patches to put above their eyes so that if anyone looked under the hood, they would think that they saw a Jawa’s glowing eyes. Anakin even wore gloves, so that his hands looked like a Jawa’s.

It was just like Dorn to have these disguises.

Kitster had a description of the dungeon, and knew what guards were on duty. He told his friends where to meet if there was trouble. He’d even brought a Jawa’s ion blaster to disable any droid guards. Pala was pulling a repulsorlift sled, so that they could bring the Ghostling children back to town once they got them out.

Soon, they neared Gardulla’s fortress.

Jagged peaks rose up from the desert like teeth in a rotted, overturned skull. The fortress squatted atop them like a giant spydr. The huge black central dome of the fortress could open to receive spaceships. To Anakin it looked like a spydr’s back. Then, down among the jagged peaks, were black towers of synth-steel that had gun emplacements on them. Anakin imagined that these were legs to the spydr.

But the building was only part of the fortress. Legend said that it was built atop an old mine. Tunnels and caves riddled the hills beneath the monstrous fortress. He remembered vaguely that it was a maze down there.

As he stared up at the insectlike building, he felt despair. How would they ever get the Ghostling children out?

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