Star Wars - Roll of the Dice by Karen Miller

Author:Karen Miller
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub
Published: 2012-08-24T21:20:50+00:00

“Stang!”

The stink of fresh bantha dung was a hundred times worse down here. Flailing about in the half-light, fending off wet, anxious muzzles and blunt, hairy foreheads, feeling the animals mill and shift, in danger of falling beneath their heavy feet, Myri struggled to find a way to safety.

“Myri! Over here!”

And that was her father. Using her knees and elbows as bantha-prods, trying not to suffocate while holding her breath, she escaped the bantha corral.

“So much for studying the schematics!” she wheezed, as he took hold of her arm to help her over the corral’s durasteel side. “When was the last time you had your eyesight checked?”

Her father’s teeth gleamed briefly in the gloom. “Everyone’s a critic. Come on. The lifepods are this way.”

“Are you sure?” she grumbled, following. “Because the last thing we need is —”

Blaster bolts stitched a line of red fire across the deck plating before them.

“Halt!” demanded the lead security droid. Four others loomed behind it, heavily armed and menacing. “On the floor, face down, hands where we can see them.”

“Face down?” Myri echoed. “On this floor? You’ve got to be joking!” Taken aback, unused to an argument, the droid stared. Not looking at her father, Myri slid her scalpel earring out of her pocket. “The more the merrier, I think.”

He’d given her the earrings for her last birthday. Another gleam of teeth as he grinned. “So do I.”

Before the droids could react, he unsheathed his own laser pen and in a perfect duet they loosed the banthas from their corral. With an added “Sorry!” Myri laser-blipped the nearest hairy rumps, sending the bewildered creatures into a panic.

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