Star Wars: Legacy of the Force [06] - Inferno by Troy Denning

Author:Troy Denning [Denning, Troy]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Adventure, Science Fiction, Fantasy
ISBN: 9780345477552
Amazon: 0345477553
Barnesnoble: 0345477553
Goodreads: 189287
Publisher: LucasBooks
Published: 2007-08-27T19:00:00+00:00

twelve

Despite a brisk wind, and the lush tang of wroshyr pollen it carried, the musky smell of so many Wookiees gathered for so long in such a small place was…overpowering. Not sickening, but certainly dizzying. As Leia followed Han through the jungle of roaring fur that was the Rock Council, it took an act of will just to continue breathing. She did not bother trying to remain steady on her feet. The way she and Han were being bounced around by shifting hips and flying elbows, that was a lost cause.

A particularly large elbow, descending from a ferocious cheer, crashed down on Leia’s shoulder and drove her to her knees. She didn’t cry out—Saba had broken her of that particular urge by rapping her on the head until she learned to accept pain silently—but it didn’t prevent the elbow’s owner from scowling down to see what kind of critter he had just smashed.

“No harm.” Leia rose and rotated her arm. “See? It still works.”

The Wookiee, a lanky male with graying fur, narrowed a pair of silvery eyes and growled something in a dialect Leia might have understood, had she been able to hear it over the howls of approval rolling across Council Rock. She chided herself silently, thinking she had allowed her concentration to slip. The Solos’ furlough from their week-long stay in jail was not exactly authorized; without a Force mask suggesting they actually belonged here, Leia worried that it would only be a matter of moments before they were seized and returned to their cell.

“There’s no need for concern,” she said, waving her hand between them. Wookiees were rarely weak-minded, but she had nothing to lose by trying. “We’ve come to hear the—”

“No problem,” Han interrupted, addressing himself to the Wookiee. “It was an accident.”

He grabbed Leia by the hand and softly hissed, “He’s just apologizing.” He pulled her between a pair of furry torsos, then added, “And cut out the Force stuff already. That isn’t allowed here.”

“We’re not allowed here,” Leia said, squeezing to his side. “We’re supposed to be in jail, remember?”

Han shook his head. “We’re supposed to be in jail when Waroo gets back from lunch,” he said. “Didn’t you hear him?”

Leia frowned. “I thought I had,” she said. “Didn’t he say, You’d better be here when I get back?”

“That’s exactly what he said—not You’d better still be here or You’d better not go anywhere or Don’t use the Force to open that lock while I’m gone.” Han shook his head, then added, “Sometimes I wonder how you ever made it as a diplomat.”

“He let us escape?” Leia asked. “I thought Wookiees had an honor code.”

“They do,” Han said. “And only Wookiees understand it.”

They finally reached the center of Council Rock, emerging from the crowd at the foot of a natural basalt dais standing half again as tall as a man. Atop the pedestal, a dome-muzzled male paced back and forth, roaring at the crowd and waving a meter-long mandible lined with hooked fangs. Leia

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