Star Wars - A Certain Point of View by Charlene Newcomb

Author:Charlene Newcomb
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub
Published: 1995-08-16T17:59:06+00:00

The cell door slid shut behind her. Celia stood rigidly, staring at Kaileel. After more than 10 hours, she was finally able to talk to him, just as Adion Ling had promised.

Shaking her head, she placed her nav-aid datapads on the chest just inside the door and began pacing back and forth across Kaileel’s cell. Her hand nervously fingered her empty holster.

“You admitted it!” she finally shouted at Kaileel.

“What else was I to do, Lieutenant?” he asked her.

Stopping dead in her tracks in front of him, Celia rolled her eyes in disgust. “Lie!”

Kaileel stared past her as if looking out some nonexistent viewport. “To what end? My dear little Crimson,” he said, turning to look into her eyes, “I know you are not that naive.”

Celia clenched her fists and pounded Kaileel’s muscular chest. “I just don’t understand, Chief!” she cried. “What has the Empire done to you?”

“Nothing.”

“Then why did you get yourself mixed up with these Rebels?”

“What the Empire is doing is wrong,” he told her. “it’s immoral. Remember what I told you — that certain point of view — stop looking at the Empire from a distance. Take a look up close, Celia. You will see. All freedom-loving beings know this is true.” He took her hand into his, pressing it closely to his chest. “And I know, deep in my heart, that one day you will understand.”

Staring up into his huge black eyes, Celia pushed down the lump in her throat. “I just don’t know, Chief — ”

The door into the cell slid open.

“Time’s up, Lieutenant. I’m afraid you’ll have to leave.”

“But it’s only been a couple of minutes. Can’t I stay a little while longer, Sergeant?”

“I’ve got my orders, Lieutenant.”

The stormtrooper motioned her toward the door. Celia frowned at Kaileel. She finally walked away from him. stopping to glance back one last time.

“I still want my rematch with you, Chief!” she told him, reaching for the datapads on the chest. “I won’t let them take you off this ship until I get a rematch!”

The datapads slipped from Celia’s hands, clattering to the floor. She bent down to retrieve them, inconspicuously withdrawing the knife from her boot. Standing abruptly, she drove the knife under the stormtrooper’s helmet and into his neck. He screamed in pain as she forcefully pulled him out of the doorway, bashing his head against the wall. Her hands shaking, she twisted the blade one last time as the trooper collapsed to the floor.

“C’mon, Chief,” she said, re-sheathing the knife in her boot, “we’ve got to get out of here!”

A second stormtrooper appeared in the doorway. Diving to the floor, Celia recovered the fallen trooper’s blaster rifle and opened fire. Her shot nicked the wall as the stormtrooper backed away from the door. Jumping to her feet. Celia scrambled to the doorway and blasted him as he ran down the corridor.

“Let’s go, Chief!” she shouted, throwing the blaster rifle back to him.

Following her, Kaileel stepped over the two dead stormtroopers. “Tell me, dear Crimson, do you really expect us to get out of here alive?” he asked.

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