The Way Of The Apprentice by Watson Jude

Author:Watson, Jude [Watson, Jude]
Language: eng
Format: azw3, epub
Published: 0101-01-01T00:00:00+00:00

“You don’t know that,” Ferus said. “The toxin could have a half-life.”

“We don’t have time to investigate that,” Galen snapped.

“Don’t you think we have enough to do?”

“We are not accusing you,” Ferus said politely.

“Maybe not. But you are wasting my time. I am trying to save lives here.”

Galen waved at the datascreen.

“We need to find out who passed the information along,”

Anakin said in a forceful tone. He was tired of letting Ferus ask all the questions. He was getting nowhere with that polite tone. “Whoever it was wanted to foster instability on the planet. I don’t call investigating that a waste of time. Do you?”

“Hey, there’s no reason to jump down my throat, kid.”

Galen held up two hands, as if to fend Anakin off. “Look, I’d like to help.

But there’s really no way to tell who passed on the information. Many of the ministers have gone to Coruscant. Some have scattered to other worlds to wait out the catastrophe in comfort.” He frowned at them. “You’re not thinking of leaving now that you’ve lost your Masters, are you?”

“We haven’t lost them,” Anakin snapped.

Ferus interrupted smoothly. “No, we’re not leaving. We’re to remain until the evacuations take place. Don’t worry. And we’ve destroyed many of the Prototype Droids that the raiders were using.”

“You kids did?” Galen looked impressed. “Maybe things are looking up.”

Suddenly the communicator sputtered to life. It crackled and buzzed, but they could hear a voice calling for Galen to answer.

He quickly adjusted the chair to swing over to the comm unit. “Galen here.

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