Journey to Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker: Force Collector by Kevin Shinick

Author:Kevin Shinick
Language: eng
Format: epub, azw3
Publisher: Disney Lucasfilm Press
Published: 2019-11-18T16:00:00+00:00

Karr and RZ-7 emerged from hyperspace. The star streaks shrank down to dots, the boy got his breath back, and the Avadora was hovering at the edge of Batuu’s atmosphere. “There it is. This is about as far as we can go, before we hit Wild Space. And out there?” He shrugged. “Who knows what’s out there, past all this.”

“Let’s not go out there, sir.” RZ-7 locked the ship into a stable orbit, and they both sat back in their chairs. “Past all this.”

“I’m not planning on it,” Karr said with a grin.

“Good. In that case, let’s not go down there, either,” the droid said, pointing to Batuu’s blue-and-green surface.

“What? Why? Is it something about Dok-Ondar’s place?”

“Not necessarily, sir. But each time we’ve ventured out, I feel we’ve come closer and closer to peril.”

“That’s part of exploring, Arzee. You’ve got to get used to it.”

“I’d really rather not, sir.”

Karr waved his hand in front of RZ-7’s faceplate and jokingly attempted to use the Force on the droid. “You will join me.”

The droid thought for a moment and said, “All right, I will join you.”

Karr’s jaw dropped. “Wait. Did you say that because of the Force or because you’re agreeable?”

“Which would make you happier, sir?”

Karr waved his hand again. “You will tell me the truth.”

“Yes, I will always tell you the truth, sir.”

Karr buried his face in his hands. Next time he needed to program a less congenial personality if he was going to get anywhere. “Find the location of Dok-Ondar’s place, please.”

“Oh, I’ve already found a location for it.” The droid pulled up some schematics. “It’s inside Black Spire Outpost.”

“Sounds like an exciting place.”

“It might be, but we should do our best to avoid excitement, sir. We don’t need to attract attention. As I mentioned, you say ‘exciting,’ but I say ‘alarming.’ There’s not a great deal of…shall we say…rule of law on Batuu. People come and go as they like, without the eye of the First Order. Or anyone else.”

“There’s no First Order on Batuu?”

“Not so far as I know, sir. As I understand it, the Outpost consists almost entirely of a spaceport, a cantina, a market, and a merchant row—so on the bright side, we can probably find this antiquarian without too much difficulty. He seems to be rather notorious at this end of the system.”

“Here’s hoping.”

No one at the spaceport gave them any grief, and hardly anyone asked questions when they parked the ship and left it there like they owned the place. “Seems friendly,” Karr whispered gleefully to RZ-7.

“Sir, it’s much more likely that a young man with a very nice, private First Order ship is assumed to be on the kind of business no one cares to interfere with. As long as neither one of us blows it by telling the truth.”

“I won’t blow it if you don’t.”

The droid nodded, then said quietly, “You must pretend you’re Maize, sir.”

“What? I’d never pass for Maize—my skin’s the wrong color, I’m the wrong species, and I mean, come on.

Download

Copyright Disclaimer:
This site does not store any files on its server. We only index and link to content provided by other sites. Please contact the content providers to delete copyright contents if any and email us, we'll remove relevant links or contents immediately.