Star Wars: Galaxy of Fear 07: The Brain Spiders by John Whitman

Author:John Whitman
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub
Tags: Magic, Action & Adventure, Fantasy, Juvenile Fiction, General, Science Fiction, Science fiction, Horror stories
ISBN: 9780553486377
Publisher: Bantam Books
Published: 1997-11-10T08:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER 9

The look of fear on Beidlo's face was so intense that Zak thought he might be crazy. "What do you mean?" he asked. "This morning you said everything was just fine."

"That was before"-Beidlo swallowed-"... before I found out about the brain transfers."

Zak scratched his head. His mind was cluttered enough without Beidlo confusing him further. "But you told us about the brain transfers.

You just about showed us one!"

"I know! I know!" Beidlo explained. "That's how it started. There wasn't supposed to be a brain transfer yesterday. It made me curious, so I started looking around. I found out that there have been an awful lot of unscheduled brain transfers recently. Then I realized there are at least twice as many brain spiders as there were when I joined the B'omarr just a few months ago."

"So?" Zak asked. "Doesn't that just mean more monks are becoming enlightened or whatever?"

"Either that," Beidlo said in a trembling voice, "or someone is removing their brains against their will."

"What?" Zak said in disbelief. "That doesn't make any sense. Why would someone want to stick their brains in little jars? Besides, Uncle Hoole just told me that only the B'omarr monks know how to perform the operation. Which means they're doing it to themselves."

Beidlo shook his head. "No, no, it's worse than that. Ten monks have supposedly become enlightened in the past few months. But there have been fifteen operations! And I'm telling you, there are way too many brain spiders around. And they're acting strangely."

Zak remembered the brain spider that had chased him. "I can't argue with that."

"Something bad is happening here," Beidlo nearly sobbed. "Someone is performing the brain transfers on monks who aren't ready!"

Zak swallowed. "Okay, if this is true, why tell me? Why not tell the other monks?"

Beidlo smacked his head in frustration. "Don't you think I tried that? But the monks just don't care. I told you, they spend all their time studying and thinking. They don't care what happens to their bodies.

They don't care about anything outside their meditation. They won't listen!"

"And you think I will," Zak guessed.

"You and your uncle. Please, call the authorities. Ask them to come down here and investigate. Anything!"

Zak wasn't sure what to think. He didn't know anything about brain spiders or B'omarr monks. Beidlo's story didn't make very much sense. But he still had the nagging feeling that something weird was going on in Jabba's palace. "Okay, I'll tell my uncle. Maybe he'll have an idea."

"Thank you!" Beidlo said in relief. "While you do that, I'm going to tell the one monk who might be willing to act. Grimpen's not like the rest. He'll get to the bottom of this!"

Zak hurried up the tunnel as Beidlo ran in the opposite direction.

Armed with this new information, Zak returned to his uncle's quarters.

"Back so soon?" Hoole asked. "Where's Tash?"

Zak quickly explained what Beidlo had told him.

Hoole frowned. "I do not understand, Zak. What would the monks have to gain by doing more brain transfers? And

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