Tempest: Star Wars (Legacy of the Force) (Star Wars: Legacy of the Force) by Denning Troy

Author:Denning, Troy [Denning, Troy]
Language: eng
Format: mobi
ISBN: 9780345510501
Publisher: Random House, Inc.
Published: 2008-04-29T04:00:00+00:00

chapter twenty

Outside the Falcon’s canopy hung a streaming veil of blue and white brilliance, so intense that it made Han’s eyes hurt like a Fogblaster hangover. He hesitated at the back of the flight deck, trying to make some sense of what he was seeing, half convinced that it was the efflux tail of some Death Star-type megaship.

And if it was some big new superweapon, Han knew he and Leia would end up trying to destroy the thing before it blew up Tenel Ka’s throneworld or something—and he had no doubts about how that would turn out. Han was already older than Obi-Wan Kenobi had been when he’d died aboard the original Death Star, and on crazy missions like that, wasn’t it always the wise old man who got killed first? If it happened, Han only hoped his kids would figure out he and Leia had been no part of the assassination attempt on Tenel Ka. Dying, he could take—he just didn’t want to go out with people thinking he was some kind of terrorist.

But the longer Han studied the blazing sheet ahead, the more he realized he could not be looking at any kind of efflux tail. There were actually two bright streams, one broad and curving and fan-shaped, the other thin and straight and braided.

He finally realized what he was seeing.

Scowling toward the pilot’s seat, which had become Leia’s until his shoulder was healed enough to fly, Han stepped onto the flight deck. “Are you flying my ship into a comet?”

“Yes, dear.” Leia met his gaze in the canopy reflection, then shot him a brief frown—one he knew was meant to remind him that they still had a lot to learn about Morwan and the usurpers. “We agreed to return Lady Morwan to her Ducha, remember?”

“Of course I remember.” Han glanced at Morwan, who was in the copilot’s chair, then dropped into the navigator’s seat behind Leia. “But no one lives on a comet.”

“Actually, a surprising number of beings inhabit comets,” C-3PO offered from the communications station. “Hermits, pirates, fugitives, political exiles—”

“AlGray’s no hermit,” Han grumbled. “And even if she was, she must own a dozen empty moons already.”

“Actually, all of the Relephon Moons are inhabited,” Morwan said. “But we’re not meeting Ducha AlGray at her residence.”

Han glanced down at the navigation display and saw that they weren’t anywhere near Relephon—far from it, in fact. “The Hapan system?” he asked. “What are we doing here?”

“The answer to that is obvious,” Morwan replied. “And you shouldn’t be out of medbay. You need that hydration drip to keep your electrolytes in balance. Blaster burns remove a lot of fluids from your system.”

“My fluids are just fine.” Han had the sinking feeling that he knew exactly why they were in the Hapan system, and he was fairly sure that Tenel Ka could not be ready. With so much of her Royal Navy assigned to the Galactic Alliance, she would need support from the nobles still loyal to her—support that would take time to arrive.

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