Thrawn: Alliances (Star Wars) by Timothy Zahn

Author:Timothy Zahn [Zahn, Timothy]
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub, azw3
Publisher: Random House Publishing Group
Published: 2018-07-23T22:00:00+00:00

It was just as well he hadn’t dawdled. An instant later the floodlights came back on, one of the beams catching the lightsaber hilt for a fraction of a second before the weapon arced out of its reach into the darkness.

And in the newly restored light, he saw that the courtyard had dissolved into chaos.

Droids were everywhere: the two remaining groups of B1s trotting across the open space, their long, cylindrical heads turning rapidly back and forth as they searched for a target; four more B2s appearing from somewhere and lurching along, their arms stretched out with wrist blasters pointed stolidly in front of them. The two Serennians over in the corner were racing toward the pile of scrap metal that Anakin had just created from the droid patrol, their cloaks flapping behind them, comms held urgently to their lips as they barked out orders. A door at the courtyard’s northeast corner opened and another group of B1s streamed out.

“What was that?” Anakin gasped.

“You fool,” Thrawn bit out. “The droid was no bomb. It was a distraction. He stowed away aboard our ship!”

“Oh, esehigi!” Anakin snarled, spitting out a local curse Thrawn had taught him. “Come on—we need to get out of here.”

He took off, slapping Thrawn on the shoulder for emphasis as he passed, sprinting past the still-backpedaling Serennian toward the door.

“Wait!” the Serennian shouted.

Anakin kept going, reaching to the Force for warning. If the other was suspicious, or if the B2s were programmed to act on their own—

But no double-vision warning came of blaster bolts blazing toward his back. The Serennian had seen the lightsaber; and if he hadn’t actually seen anyone wielding it, Anakin knew that human minds and memories were very good at adding in unseen but logically obvious details.

Anakin had covered half the distance to the door when he heard footsteps coming up behind him. He half turned, assuming it was Thrawn, just as a heavy hand came down on his shoulder. “I said wait,” the Serennian snapped, forcing Anakin to slow to a fast jog. “You can’t be in there alone.”

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