The New Rebellion: Star Wars Legends (Star Wars - Legends) by Kristine Kathryn Rusch

Author:Kristine Kathryn Rusch [Rusch, Kristine Kathryn]
Language: eng
Format: azw3
ISBN: 9780307796356
Publisher: Random House Worlds
Published: 2011-06-28T00:00:00+00:00

Leia was nearly finished outfitting Alderaan. The ship was designed especially for her, an escape vehicle when she needed it, an emergency vehicle when the times called for it, as they had when Hethrir had stolen her children. Alderaan had no markings on her outside, and her name was known only to a few. She was identified by her number, and her owner was listed as a woman named Lelila. Lelila was actually Leia’s nickname from childhood, her second identity, one that had served her well in her search for her own children not so long ago.

It would serve her well now, in her search for her brother.

Luke? she sent again, but again, she received nothing in return.

Luke had appeared so badly injured in that holo. Perhaps he was dead. Perhaps he hadn’t survived the explosion of his X-wing.

Perhaps, perhaps, perhaps. She couldn’t live with perhaps. Her brother had been given up for dead many times. She had learned to believe that he could survive the most impossible circumstances. She had learned that when she and Lando had found him hanging upside down from a weather vane below Cloud City.

She sent a final coded message along all computer channels, trying to find Artoo. He was probably still in repair. Those Kloperians had nearly destroyed him twice, and she had left an order—one of her last official acts—that the Kloperians who worked in the ship docks be relieved of their duties until she was certain that they were not guilty of any tampering. She suspected them because of their behavior toward her droids. If they had left the droids alone, she would have thought them innocent victims, like everyone else.

If Artoo didn’t arrive soon, she would go alone. Time was the most important factor here. If Luke was alive, but badly wounded, he might not be able to defend himself. Sometimes his powers seemed magical to those around him, but she knew beneath it all that Luke was as human as anyone else.

And as vulnerable.

Death took even the greatest Jedi Knights. She had watched Obi-Wan die, raising his lightsaber, and allowing Vader to slice him through.

That image had stayed with her all these years. For while Luke had come to see that moment as a sign of Ben’s power, Leia had always seen it as an example of power’s limitations.

She had never spoken to Obi-Wan Kenobi when he was alive. Only when he was a ghostly vision, like her real father and Yoda. Obi-Wan hadn’t seemed strong then. A guide, a teacher, and little more.

A knock on the hatch made her whirl. No one knew she was here, except Mon Mothma, and she wouldn’t come here. Artoo, if he had received Leia’s message, wouldn’t knock.

She tapped her exterior screen. Wedge stood there, wearing his general’s uniform, his hair slicked back, his hat tucked under his arm. He looked very official.

Her mouth went dry. Silly to be afraid of a friend, but she was suddenly. She didn’t want him to tell her to stay, and she didn’t want him to notify anyone that she had left—at least not this early on.

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