Enemy Lines I: Rebel Dream by Aaron Allston

Author:Aaron Allston [Allston, Aaron]
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi
Tags: Fiction, SciFi, Star Wars, New Jedi Order
ISBN: 9780345428660
Publisher: Del-Rey

Lando looked over the battlefield that had been a cargo hold. Twenty Yuuzhan Vong warriors lay dead, some of them no longer recognizable as bipedal humanoids, all over the deck plating. Lando’s fifteen war droids and Alema Rar, the Twi’lek Jedi, moved among them, dispatching wriggling amphistaffs and the occasional thud bug and razor bug set free by the blaster damage that had killed their owners. Alema whistled to herself as she worked.

Lando consulted his datapad. He sent a signal to query a device elsewhere in the vessel. “Not good. Danni’s device isn’t indicating any weird gravitic fluctuations. Meaning that there probably isn’t a tracking creature on this vessel.”

Alema nodded and switched her lightsaber off. “Refugees have to be turning one another in. I’m not sure for what. Violence threatened against their loved ones, maybe. Maybe some sort of bribe.” She shrugged. “We’ll figure out what they’re doing.”

Lando turned his attention to his droid aide. “One-One-A, let’s get this cleaned up. Get rid of the biological remains only, don’t worry about the blaster scorches. Load representative weapons and gear into a barrel and seal it tight, then load it onto the shuttle.”

One-One-A saluted. “Acknowledged.”

“Would you like to celebrate?” That was Alema. She wore a curious smile, artificially demure.

Lando turned back to her. “What did you have in mind?”

She just continued smiling.

“Oh.” He gave her his best smile in return, modulated his voice to its smoothest register. “I find myself flattered. But I am a married man.”

She cocked her head as though the answer were incomplete.

“So I have to decline,” he concluded.

She shrugged as though it were of no concern. “I’ll prep the shuttle, then.”

When she was gone, Lando turned back to 1-1A. “Remind me again of the rewards of being virtuous?”

“I have never reminded you of this before.”

“That was a rhetorical question.”

“Nor have I ever told you of such rewards prior to not reminding you.”

“It was still rhetorical. I really need to give you an upgraded conversation module if you’re going to be talking all the time.”

In the distance, they heard Alema calling, “Captain, captain, wherever you are! You can come out now!”

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