The New Jedi Order 11: Rebel Dream by Aaron Allston

Author:Aaron Allston
Language: eng
Format: mobi
Tags: Luke (Fictitious Character), Skywalker, Travel, Life on Other Planets, Star Wars Fiction, Interplanetary Voyages, Fiction, Science Fiction, Fantasy, Interplanetary Travel, Fighter Pilots, General
ISBN: 9780345428660
Publisher: Del Rey
Published: 2002-01-01T00:00:00+00:00

Danni tapped a key on Iella's datapad. The image began again - a view of Yuuzhan Vong warriors in a dimly lit corridor. They charged toward whoever was carrying the holocam, their war cries terrifying, their movements just slightly alien. "This is Tam Elgrin's recording. He was with a group of people in a Coruscant building when a Yuuzhan Vong patrol saw and pursued them. He was at the rear of his group when he recorded this. Then he switched off the holocam so he could concentrate on running, and he got away. Most of the other people didn't."

"So?"

"There's something wrong with the recording, and with Tam himself. Tam behaves kind of oddly, more than is normal for someone who is just socially maladjusted, I think, so I've been trying to figure him out. I've played this recording over and over again, first looking for little bits of information about Yuuzhan Vong hunting tactics, then about Tam... and I finally realized that this feeling of wrongness I had didn't have anything to do with the Yuuzhan Vong."

"You've lost me."

"I kind of went behind your back and asked the Wraiths to look into it for me. To do analysis on the recording in their spare time."

"They have spare time? I don't remember issuing them any spare time. So what did they find out?"

"There are nine sets of footsteps echoing in that hallway. You can count eight Yuuzhan Vong visible in the recording, so the other one has to be Tam."

"Eight Yuuzhan Vong and one human." Iella looked at the recording again. It played on continuous loop. "Meaning that Tam wasn't with a group."

"Right."

"Why would he lie?" The answer was in place before Iella finished the question. "Because if he admitted he was alone, he'd have to have a really good explanation of how he got away from those warriors."

"Right again."

"Meaning he didn't get away."

Danni shrugged. "That's my guess. But I'm not in Intelligence."

"You want to transfer?"

Danni smiled. "I don't think they'd let me."

Iella extracted the data card from her datapad. "Mind if I take this?"

"Go ahead. I've copied the recording. Multiply." "That's good work, Danni." Iella rose and moved to the door. "You let me know if you ever want to get into the Intelligence analysis business."

"Twin Suns Leader ready," Jaina said. "Four lit and in the green." The vibration from her X-wing's engines, the whine of engines from all over the special operations docking bay, cut into her, a familiar and welcome sensation.

"Twins Two, ready." That was Kyp. "Going to shield me a goddess."

"Twins Three, ready." That was Jag, and, as Jaina predicted, he omitted any quip or irrelevant remark.

"Record Time, ready to lift."

Moments later, they lifted off, two X-wings and Jag's clawcraft comprising a shield trio, with the Record Time, the troop transport damaged during the taking of Bor-leias and subsequently patched back together, lumbering after them. They moved easily out of the docking bay and lifted toward the starry sky, just starting to blur with dawn, above them.

Jaina spared a look out the starboard side other canopy at Jag's clawcraft.

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