Star Wars - 228 - Tatooine Ghost by Troy Denning

Author:Troy Denning [Denning, Troy]
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi
Tags: Fiction, General, Science Fiction, Media Tie-In, Space Opera, Adventure, Science Fiction; American, Life on Other Planets, Leia; Princess (Fictitious Character), Solo; Han (Fictitious Character)
ISBN: 9780345456694
Google: 6eIdKwNUVScC
Amazon: 0345456696
Publisher: LucasBooks
Published: 2003-01-01T08:00:00+00:00

Chapter 14

Han woke smothering in the perfumed silki-ness of Leia's long hair, her soft skin warming his side and her breath tickling his ear. Sometime during the night, she had managed to reattach his hydration drip and return to bed without disturbing him, and now even his lips no longer felt dry. The room was comfortably cool, the sky window above the bed was blushing with the pink light of first sunrise, and everything was right with the world.

Except, perhaps, that muffled sound coming from the suite's sitting room. It had the familiar drone of an electronically filtered voice and the sharp rhythm of someone giving orders. Of a squad leader assigning tasks to his stormtroopers. Alarm bringing him instantly to full wakefulness, Han looked to the side table and found his blaster resting next to Leia's.

The electronic voice barked a command.

Han did not bother to detach himself from the hydration drip, or even to wake Leia. He simply tossed her blaster over the far side of the bed, then snatched his own weapon and rolled after it, grab bing her on the way. A burning line of pain shot up his arm as the hydration catheter tore free, then he landed on the floor, bringing Leia down on top of him.

Her eyelids rose half open, and their gazes met instantly. "Han?" She smiled dreamily. "My, you are feeling better."

"Sorry, not in front of company." He snatched her blaster off the floor and pressed it into her hand. "You know I'm not that kind of guy."

Leia's eyes opened wide. "Company?"

"Listen."

They fell quiet and listened to the muffled voices coming from the next room. It was too faint to understand words, but the stormtrooper drone was unmistakable. Leia pushed herself off him and started for the bedroom's oversized door.

Han sat up. "Hey! Don't go out-"

Leia stepped through the door.

Han sprang across the bed after her. "At least put on some clothes!" When he peered into the sitting room, he found no storm-troopers anywhere. Leia was standing at the table, staring down at the datapad from which the electronic voices were coming.

"Dama lent this to me so we could keep an eye on the lobby," Leia said, picking up the borrowed datapad.

With a blaster in one hand and her brown eyes fixed on the datapad in the other, her long hair falling in a silky cascade over her shoulders, she seemed more breathtakingly beautiful than ever. Han knew he had to be the luckiest ex-smuggler in the galaxy; if they could just get past her fear of having children, he was pretty sure that when his time came, he would leave this universe with every wish he ever had fulfilled. Leia looked up from the datapad and frowned. "Han, why are you just standing there?" Han shrugged. "Too much sun, I guess." "Well, you're bleeding all over Dama's floor." Leia nodded at his arm, which was oozing blood from the rip where he had torn out the catheter. "Get a towel or something and come over here.

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