Star Wars: The Corellian Trilogy: Ambush at Corellia by Roger Macbride Allen

Author:Roger Macbride Allen [Allen, Roger Macbride]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 978-0-307-79614-1
Publisher: Bantam Books
Published: 2011-05-04T04:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER FOURTEEN

Sightseer

The rain continued into the next day, but by that time, everyone had had quite enough of being cooped up in the house. Rain or no rain, they piled into a hovercar the Governor-General had loaned them, and took off, with Han at the controls. He reached for altitude as quickly as possible, punching through the gray misery of the driving rainstorm, bouncing and bucking the hovercar’s way through the storm clouds themselves, and then up into the clear blue gleaming skies above.

It was remarkable what a change the sight of blue skies made. Everyone’s mood lifted, even Chewbacca’s, shoe-horned though he was into a copilot’s seat not nearly large enough for him. The bickering children suddenly went quiet, and forgot the sulky arguments about who was crowding whose seat. All at once they were pointing out the cloud tops below to each other, and telling each other what monsters and aliens the clouds looked like.

Han felt better, too. Getting out from under the rain was part of it, of course, but it was also the idea of getting away—far away—from Coronet, if only for a while. There was something to be said for playing tourist if it kept you out of town.

* * *

Kalenda watched the family hovercar with feelings of relief and fear. It was impossible for her to follow them. She could rest, at least for a while. However, it didn’t seem as if they had taken a great deal of luggage. Probably they were only heading off on a day trip. But that would be enough for her to wash up a bit, get a decent meal, and catch some sleep. Of course, there was always the chance that the opposition would take advantage of their absence for some sort of skulduggery. But she could set the macrobinoculars on time-lapse record while she slept, and play the recording back later. If there was any hanky-panky, she could still catch it on the recording and take action in time.

The situation was no better, and she knew that she was not likely to do anyone any good anytime soon. But she could think of no activity more worthwhile than staying close to the Chief of State’s family.

She would figure out what to do next later.

In the meantime, she could get some sleep.

* * *

They flew past the clouds, and down below them, the rolling landscape of Corellia came into view. Low tree-covered hills and steep valleys broke up the steady march of tidy fields, and here and there, a small town slid past the left or right of the hovercar’s line of flight.

Han looked down, and it felt good to see it all. This was the Corellia he remembered, or at least he could pretend it was. Perhaps all those tidy little farms, all those handsome little towns, were as destitute as Coronet. But at least he could imagine they were happy and prosperous.

The autopilot alert beeped, and an indicator light came on. They were getting close to the archaeology dig.

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