Star Wars: Razor's Edge by Martha Wells

Author:Martha Wells
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub
Tags: Science Fiction, Space Opera, Action & Adventure, Fiction
ISBN: 9780345545244
Publisher: Random House Incorporated
Published: 2013-09-30T23:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER TEN

As they spilled out of the refresher, Leia grimly reminded herself that she couldn’t afford lapses like that. It was all right to be attracted to Han, but she couldn’t be tempted, especially not in the middle of a mission, but being attracted at such close range, watching him shifting around in that confined space, made her think about warm skin and hard muscle.… She couldn’t be tempted, especially not in the middle of a mission.

Sometimes she felt like the Empire had killed part of her when had they killed Alderaan, but moments like that made her remember she was still alive, still whole. It made her want to take all she could while she could, before the Empire killed her again. But there was never any time. Not when there were so many more important things to do.

Maybe that was why she had little difficulty in sympathizing with Metara, no matter how reprehensible she found the woman’s choice to pursue piracy. They were both arrested in time, in that moment when their home had cracked and burned and turned to dust. But they were coping with it in very different ways.

Leia was relieved to hear that her visitor was Anakaret. The Twi’lek had come alone, talking her way past the guards at the bay doors by pointing out very reasonably that Viest had said the Aegis crew wasn’t to leave the bay, but nothing had been said about them receiving visitors.

“They won’t tell Viest,” Anakaret said as Kelvan led her into the ready room. “They aren’t so stupid; they know what she would do to them. And they don’t like to obey her orders like good little clones, either, but they don’t have much choice, unless they can get berths on a ship, and no one will give them any without Viest’s say-so.”

Anakaret took a seat on the couch built against the bulkhead and looked around expectantly. Leia was fairly certain she knew what the etiquette was in this situation and glanced at Metara. “Do we have a drink for our friend?”

Metara nodded to Terae, who looked startled but got up and went out, returning a moment later with a bottle of Corellian wine and some glasses. Leia hoped they had bought it at a port somewhere and not taken it off some unfortunate ship. At Metara’s nod, Terae opened it and poured out glasses for Anakaret, Leia, and Metara.

Anakaret took a drink and nodded to the others. “These are your people?” she asked Leia.

Leia knew what she meant. She nodded to Han, Sian, and Kifar. “They’re my people. The others are our allies, and prospective business partners.” She took a small sip of wine, mindful that she couldn’t afford to lose her edge; she hadn’t even done anything for her bruises except take the mildest painkiller the ship’s medic had. The impacts from the remote weren’t so bad, but the place on her back where the droid’s claw had slapped her ached badly.

With a nod, Anakaret got right to the point.

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