Tatooine Ghost by Denning Troy

Author:Denning, Troy [Denning, Troy]
Language: eng
Format: azw3, epub, mobi
Published: 0101-01-01T00:00:00+00:00

Dama pointed at the datapad she had given Leia. “Keep that on. If the Imperials come, take the back way out. You remember what I showed you?

”

Leia nodded. “The false room.”

“Good.” Dama opened the door and stepped into the hall. “I’ll let you know if I hear they’re coming, but you know how they can descend on a place.

Worse than skettos.”

The door closed, leaving Leia alone to reflect on what Dama had said about how Shmi had died. Well aware of the Sand People’s reputation for cruelty, Leia found herself tormented by her own imagination, reacting viscerally to the very vagueness of what she had learned about the circumstances of her grandmother’s death. How horrible it must have been, how frightening and lonely. Knowing that Shmi’s one wish would have been to see her son again, Leia found herself hoping that Anakin had reached his mother before she died, that she had seen him just once as a Jedi. It was a strange feeling for Leia, for it forced her to see him for the first time not as Darth Vader, but as the son Shmi had loved so dearly. It sent a prickle down her spine.

Leia asked Chewbacca to deal with the Squibs, then checked on Han.

Finding him sound asleep, she returned to the sitting room and replayed the previous entry. An administrator on Coruscant had finally replied to Shmi’s ‘Net message: Anakin was well, but the Jedi did not discuss the activities of their Padawans even with parents.

Even that was enough to elate Shmi. Leia asked for the next entry.

20:45:06

Kitster is coming over tomorrow with a vidrecording he has of the Boonta.

I’m not sure I want to see it again, Annie. Watching it the first time was hard enough, and now I know that when you win… that I must give you to your destiny.

I remember when Watto bought his first Podracer and told you to fix it for him. You were barely nine, but you were so clever, getting it running all by yourself. Before I knew it, Watto had you test-driving it.

I was so angry I threatened to plastiment his wings together and drop him in a solvent vat. And I would have, too, had anything happened to you.

12:18:07

Kitster is running late. Rarta Dal is keeping him very busy over at the Three Moons, so that holodisk he bought must be serving him well. He says he’s earning enough to buy his freedom by the time he is grown. Wald is not so patient. When he finishes building his swoop, he says he’s going to race his way to freedom. I hope he doesn’t hurt himself-but it’s wonderful to see them dreaming of such things. I think your example gives them courage.

Even your friend Amee has a plan, though she won’t say what it is.

I think she is still upset that I didn’t keep her secret when she said she was going to marry you, so she would be part of the family when you won our freedom.

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