Betrayal: Star Wars Legends (Legacy of the Force) (Star Wars: Legacy of the Force Book 1) by Allston Aaron

Author:Allston, Aaron [Allston, Aaron]
Language: eng
Format: azw3
ISBN: 9780345510488
Publisher: Random House Publishing Group
Published: 2008-04-24T04:00:00+00:00

Once the Jedi were in the corridor outside Dr. Rotham’s quarters and headed toward Nelani’s speeder, Jacen asked, “So how was the rest of your day, Ben?”

“Oh, pretty good, I guess.” Ben struggled to look, and feel, nonchalant. “I found the shuttle.”

Jacen smiled. “Well, that couldn’t have been too difficult. You started out at the spaceport.”

“Not your shuttle.”

Jacen frowned. “Whose?”

“The shuttle that escaped Toryaz Station.”

Jacen almost stumbled, and Ben suppressed the urge to laugh. Jacen said, “Wait. Are you sure?”

Ben nodded. “The transponder code is a match, and so is the design. It’s a Sentinel-class lander with the weapon systems stripped out.” Sentinel-class shuttles, slightly scaled-up and more heavily armored cousins of the Lambda-class shuttle that Jacen piloted, were familiar sights along the galactic space routes.

“How did you find it?” Nelani asked. She’d been impressed by Ben’s efforts during and after Huarr’s spectacular suicide, and sounded impressed again. Ben had to work hard not to preen.

Ben grimaced. This was going to be difficult to explain, to put into words. On the other hand, Nelani was a Jedi. “I waited around for a while, trying to figure out what I wanted to do. I guess I wasn’t thinking. More like feeling. And I kept noticing when shuttles landed. They kind of drew my attention, even when transports and cargo ships didn’t. Which seemed weird at the time.”

Nelani nodded. “The Force was guiding you. You were open to it.”

“I guess. And then I remembered something my mother says a lot. She says that any detail, no matter now small, could turn out to be important. And I remembered about the shuttle from Toryaz Station. Mom’s a spy, you know.”

Nelani grinned. “I know.”

“So I went through my datapad, all Jacen’s notes on details we haven’t had time to go through, and I decided to see if the spaceport records showed anything about that shuttle. And there it was, parked half a kilometer from where the Y-wing blew up.”

“Who’s it registered to?” Jacen asked.

Ben pulled out his datapad and opened it. He’d left all that information on the screen. “A human woman named Brisha Syo. She’s from Commenor. She wasn’t at the shuttle; she’d just paid for a week’s worth of hangar space. She left no contact information. The spaceport authority thought she was staying aboard, but the ship’s systems were all shut down. I told Lieutenant Samran. He’s got somebody watching it now.”

“Very good,” Jacen said. “But what if this Brisha Syo sneaks aboard and takes off when Samran’s guard is snoozing?”

“Then the transmitter we stuck on the top of the hull will tell us where she goes.” Ben shrugged as if the matter were of no consequence.

Jacen laughed. “Good work. And what did you do with the rest of your time?”

Ben scowled at him. “Now you’re making fun of me.”

Jacen nodded. “You’re getting so good at what you do, if we don’t make fun of you, you’ll have a colossal, Lando Calrissian–sized ego.”

“That would be fun.” Ben modulated his voice to something like the smooth, insinuating tones of the old Solo family friend.

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