Star Wars: Luke Skywalker and the Shadows of Mindor by Matthew Stover

Author:Matthew Stover
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub, azw3, pdf
Tags: Science Fiction, Skywalker, Star Wars Fiction, General, Fantasy, Adventure, War & Military, Luke (Fictitious Character), Fiction, Space Opera, War, Media Tie-In
ISBN: 9780345477453
Publisher: LucasBooks
Published: 2010-02-23T00:00:00+00:00

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Focusing his whole self into his Force perception with all his power and every scrap of the mental discipline that Ben and Master Yoda had pounded into him, Luke could send enough of himself along that filament of light that he could see again-dimly, distantly, through waves of bizarre distortion-and what he saw was sleeves.

Voluminous sleeves, draped together as though concealing folded hands .

.. and beyond them, a floor of smooth stone, illuminated by cold, flickering blues, like the light cast by the screen of a holoplayer. He tried to lift his head, to get a look around, but the view didn't change, and he realized that the eyes through which he saw were not his.

With that realization, other perceptions began to flower within his consciousness. He became aware that the floor at which his borrowed eyes were staring was connected with him somehow .. . that it was not ordinary stone at all, but a curious semicolloidal structure of crystal. .. that it was, inexplicably, somehow alive.

That when he set his mind to it, he could feel the life, like a sub-sonic hum can raise a tingle on the skin. But it wasn't on his skin that he felt it, it was inside his head... and he felt it because he had crystals of that semicolloidal somehow-living stone growing inside his brain... No-Not his brain.

The crystals grew within the other brain, the one connected to the eyes he was borrowing from outside the universe. This became another subject of contemplation, like his imaginary stone, because like that imaginary stone he was both inside this borrowed brain and outside it, pushing in while looking out. And when he touched those crystals with his attention, he could hear-no, feel-the whisper of despair that had murmured to him at the end of the universe.

Sleep. Struggle is futile. All things end. Existence is an illusion. Only the Dark is real.

He could feel now that the whisper came from outside this borrowed brain, even as his own perception did, and that the crystals somehow picked up this whisper and amplified it, adding this brain's limited Force power to its own, the same as it had done with the other hundreds of brains that Luke could now feel were all linked into this bizarre system.

There was somebody out there.

Luke thought, Blackhole.

And with that thought, he could feel the malignancy that fed this field of Dark: the ancient wheezing cripple entombed within his life-support capsule, who poured his bleak malice through a body-wide webwork of this selfsame crystal...

Just like the one growing within Luke's own body.

And with that understanding came power: he set his will upon the web of crystal within his body and allowed the Force to give power to his desire; now he was able to clearly perceive the link between his crystals and those within this borrowed brain. Then, when he willed the head to raise, it did, and when he willed the eyes to take in the room, he saw

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