Legacy of the Force IV: Exile by Aaron Allston

Author:Aaron Allston
Language: eng
Format: mobi
Tags: Science Fiction - Adventure, Science Fiction - Space Opera, Fiction - Science Fiction, Solo, Space Opera, Star Wars fiction, Science Fiction - Star Wars, Fiction, Space warfare, Skywalker, Imaginary wars and battles, Adventure, Science fiction, Luke (Fictitious character), Jacen (Fictitious character), Media Tie-In - General, General, Science Fiction And Fantasy, Media Tie-In, Good and evil
ISBN: 9780345477538
Publisher: Del Rey
Published: 2007-07-15T04:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER THIRTEEN

CORUSCANT

JEDI TEMPLE

Mara leaned forward, elbows on the table on either side of the datapad retrieved from

Lumiya’s quarters, and rested her chin in her hands.

From the other side of the table, Luke looked at her.

"You cracked the encryption on the data card?"

"Finally."

"But you don’t look happy."

"You don’t need a Force-bond to tell that, farmboy."

"Tell me."

"Some of it’s an invoice. The sender seems to have been a bounty hunter working for

Lumiya, and the invoice is an itemized list of expenses: hours worked, fuel pended,

Master shots taken. The main part, though, is a mission status and event report. Even

decrypted, it’s hard to puzzle out-everything is referred to by code words. But assuming

I’m putting the right names to some of these code words, the information is ...

interesting."

"Such as?"

"Confirmed that the Lady’s daughter succumbed to injuries inflicted by Grandson

Three-two-seven-oh-seven,’ " Mara recited. " ‘Please inform if Lady’s mission changed from

insertion/observation to revenge.’ "

Luke frowned over that one. "Lady has to be Lumiya. She used to style herself the Dark

Lady of the Sith ... after Emperor Palpatine and my father were no longer around to slap

her down for presumption."

"I agree. And if that same-time context is the basis for more than one of these code

names, Grandson would therefore have to be one of Darth Vader’s grandsons, right? Jacen or

Ben."

"Three-two-seven-oh-seven," Luke said. "Just a second." He pulled out his datapad,

connected it remotely to ; the Temple’s computer, and went searching for a report Ben had

filed weeks earlier. "Here it is. Bee-em-ex-three-two-seven-oh-seven. An uninhabited star

system near Bimmiel. That’s where the woman Syo led Jacen and Ben, where Jacen defeated

some sort of dark side Force-user within the asteroid under her habitat."

"Where Nelani Dinn died." Mara looked confused. "Nelani was Lumiya’s daughter?"

"No. Nelani’s parents have files in the order database, and Nelani looks-looked-a lot like

her mother. Besides, Nelani died the same day Jacen and Ben arrived at the, habitat. Your

file there suggests that ‘the Lady’s daughter’ lingered for a while." Luke frowned. "The

other woman who was there, Brisha Syo. Brisha could be an anagram for Shira B-Shira Brie."

"Lumiya’s real name."

Luke nodded. "I didn’t make the connection at the time, because then it had been years

since we’d heard anything about Lumiya." A thought was growing within him, and alongside

it a worry, a big one. "Let’s say Lumiya has a daughter. She names her Brisha, a

self-tribute, and Brisha works with her. Brisha lures Jacen and Ben to an ambush. She and

the mysterious Sith she claims is living in her basement-maybe he’s just a Dark Jedi she’s

hired, maybe he’s Lumiya’s Sith apprentice-are going to kill Ben, an act of revenge for

everything I’ve done to Lumiya. Or maybe 1() capture him, train him to be a Sith. Which is

just as much revenge, and twice the evil."

"I did a thing or two to her, as well."

"Right. Revenge against both of us. But Nelani is there, too, and throws the odds off. The

dark sider and Nelani are killed, Brisha is badly wounded, Ben gets a knock in the head

and forgets what happened, and Jacen presumably never figures out that Brisha was one of

the bad guys.

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