[Last Of The Jedi] - 02 by Dark Warning (Jude Watson)

Author:Dark Warning (Jude Watson) [Warning, Dark]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2012-03-10T13:36:29+00:00

CHAPTER TEN

“You’re really leaving me here?” Trever asked, incredulous.

Ferus checked his equipment. “I have to. Only someone who knows how to use the Force can make it through the cave.”

“Who said?”

Ferus sighed. “It will make my job harder if you’re there, Trever. The visions will confuse and frighten you.”

Trever stuck out his chin. “I’m not scared of things that aren’t there.”

“They are there. Trust me. I don’t know if I can make it through. And I’m not throwing you into a nest of gorgodons, either. If all goes well, I won’t be long. If it doesn’t go well… wait here for Obi-Wan. And stay out of sight!”

“Stop giving me orders! I’m not a kid!”

“You are a kid,” Ferus said. “You’ve seen alot and done more, but you’re still a kid, and I’m going to protect you when I have to. End of story. Now wait here. If I’m lucky, I’ll come out with Garen Muln and a lightsaber.”

“And if you aren’t lucky, a gorgodon will chew you up and spit you out, and I’ll sweep up the pieces,” Trever shot back.

“Charming,” Ferus said. “Good luck to you, too.” He turned away. He’d only gone a few steps when Trever called after him.

“You’d better make it back!”

Smiling slightly, Ferus moved on. Obi-Wan had showed him the route to the gorgodon nest and the back of the cave. He had even given him tips on how to fight a gorgodon, in case he provoked one.

“Watch out for their tails,” Ferus muttered. “And their teeth. And their saliva. And their arms, when they crush you to death.”

Ilum was an ice planet, and the snow was as smooth as glass, with an outer layer of permafrost. The air was so cold that he felt as though he’d freeze his lungs with every breath. Ferus had to take small steps and use his liquid cable to haul himself up and over the cliffs.

It was an exhausting climb, and he tried to pace himself despite his eagerness to reach the top. He knew he would need all his strength to meet the gorgodons. He also knew they slept during the day, so he also might make it through the nest without waking them.

As he climbed, he had to shake off a feeling of disbelief that he was here at all. Meeting Obi-Wan again had catapulted him onto a path he hadn’t expected. He had left his adopted homeworld, left his partner Roan, all to go on a quest to save any Jedi he could find. And he wasn’t even a Jedi any longer!

He wasn’t sure what he was anymore. He was a strange creature, half-Jedi, half-man. A space carnival creature for children to point at and laugh, waiting for him to turn into one or the other.

Focus, Ferus, he told himself sternly.

Ferus shot his liquid cable and it pulled him up the remaining hundred meters to the next crag. Thick undulating curtains of ice coated the mountain. Obi-Wan had explained that it would be difficult to pinpoint the location of the gorgodon nest.

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