Quest for Planet X by Tessa Gratton

Author:Tessa Gratton [Gratton, Tessa]
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi, azw3
Publisher: Disney Book Group
Published: 2023-03-21T00:00:00+00:00

The route to Farj would take several hours. They all needed a rest.

But they had to do something with Fel Ix.

Rooper suggested the refresher. It was contained. There was no easy access to anything that could be sabotaged.

Then Dass asked quietly, “What if we have to use the toilet?”

Sky groaned.

They couldn’t put their prisoner in the engine hold, which was also contained and easy to lock down. The Kessarine could easily mess something up in there. Same for the cockpit.

Sky pressed their hands to their face, clearly regretting keeping Fel Ix. Rooper agreed. But it was too late now. “We could put him in the bunks?”

“Feel free to keep me right here,” Fel Ix suggested.

In the galley.

Sky rolled their eyes. Dass shrugged. Rooper sighed.

So that was what they did.

Rooper claimed to feel rested already, because she’d been able to meditate. What she really wanted, though, was to talk with Fel Ix about the Path of the Open Hand, and Jedha.

Dass and Sky took the chance to get some sleep while Rooper sat in the galley with Fel Ix. The Brightbird was set to alert her if she was needed in the cockpit.

Rooper made two cups of a tea she found in tiny cubbies set under the water unit. The cups felt like real stone in her fingers. Delicate, shallow, but with the weight of a planet in their pale green lines.

Bringing them to the table, she pushed one close enough that Fel Ix could take it between the fingers of his bound hands.

Then Rooper sat across from him and stared. She tried to look confident, and maybe a little intimidating. She sipped her tea once the steam had calmed down. She let the warmth, as it infused her throat and stomach, be like the Force—spreading through her body, her awareness. The Kessarine was part of it, too, and perfectly at ease, it seemed. Either he had nothing to lose, or he was a very good actor. Or he trusted the Force as much as Rooper did.

Fel Ix lifted the tea and sipped it, too. His cheek furls rippled as he met Rooper’s gaze. A set of inner eyelids blinked, startling her. The Kessarine smiled with one side of his mouth.

Rooper had so many questions about the Path of the Open Hand, about what he’d called a Leveler, about the Battle of Jedha and what the Path wanted from the Jedi. She didn’t want to just start demanding answers but to make this more of a conversation. “Tell me about the Path,” she said gently.

Fel Ix tilted his head. “What do you wish to know?”

Tamping down frustration, she answered, “What do you believe?”

“We believe that the Force is everything, part of everything. And that it is sacred. Using it to influence thoughts, emotions, or the material world hurts its balance, and that has consequences.”

“So you mean that when I used the Force to take your blaster, there will be a consequence for that?”

“Somewhere.” Fel Ix nodded. “You may never know what, or how it affects the galaxy.

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