Star Wars Galaxies: The Ruins of Dantooine by Voronica Whitney-Robinson

Author:Voronica Whitney-Robinson [Whitney-Robinson, Voronica]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 978-0-307-54778-1
Publisher: Ballantine Books
Published: 2011-10-05T04:00:00+00:00

THIRTEEN

The man who had threatened them stood in front of three others. He was as tall as she was, dressed in a mangy vest and pants. He wore two low-slung holsters, one on each hip. A few tufts of wispy blond hair poked through the torn hat on his head. His shirt was partially open, revealing a silver chain from which hung a pendant with a sigil that looked like a bird’s foot. He had both his blasters leveled at Dusque.

“Are ya deaf?” he demanded. “Whatever you two got while you were in there is the property of the Gray Talon. Now hand it over.”

One of the others moved up to cover Finn, who gave Dusque a helpless look.

“You heard him,” the one beside Finn shouted.

“This is our planet and what’s here is ours.”

“I’ll one ask you one more time,” the leader said, “before I go ahead and take what I want. Hand over your treasure. I don’t take kindly to the idea that someone would want to rob me.”

“Okay,” Dusque replied, not trying to hide the quiver in her voice. “Just don’t shoot.” She proceeded to root around in her bag.

“Hurry,” the leader ordered her. He seemed to be enjoying her fright. “If you do, I promise I’ll kill you quickly. If not, I can make you suffer for days. I’d like that,” he said softly, “but you wouldn’t. Pretty thing like you shouldn’t have to suffer.”

Dusque poked around frantically in her pack and then her fingers closed around what she had been searching for. When she stopped moving, the Gray Talon member with the two blasters flicked one of his weapons in Finn’s direction.

“If you don’t give it to me, I’ll have my partner kill him right in front of your lovely eyes.”

As she pulled the container out of her bag, she popped the cap with her thumb.

“Here it is,” she shouted, and tossed the vial of quenker bile directly into the pirate’s face.

Screaming in rage and pain, he dropped his blasters and clawed at his eyes. Dusque, seeing him double over in agony, grabbed him by his vest and pulled him close. She reached down with one hand and pulled her sporting blaster free. Using the leader’s body as a shield, she started shooting at the two men who were still closest to the waterfall. She managed to kill one of the two pirates with her first shot. She missed the second, and he charged at her, knocking her under the water.

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