star wars fate of the jedi outcast by Unknown

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star wars fate of the jedi outcast

Chapter Sixteen

CALRISSI AN-NUN B MINES, KESSEL

“WHERE'S UNCLE HAN?” CHANCE, SITTING BESIDE ALLANA at the gleamin

white cafeteria table, rhythmically kicked the underside of the tab

letop.

“Not back yet.” Allana paid him no attention. Her gaze was on Tendra and La

ndo, who sat alone at an adjacent table, whispering urgently to each other

.

She glared at them. While Nanna prepared dinner in the adjoining, cavernou

sly empty personnel kitchen, Nien Nunb waited in the communications room

for a call from Han and Leia, and Chance was busy being a toddler. The Cal

rissians, it was clear, were discussing the Solos' fate but not doing anyt

hing about it.

Allana spoke in tones so low they couldn't hear her. "They're not dead, you kn

ow. I'd have felt it."

“Where's Aunt Leia?”

“Not back yet.”

Chance's kicks grew more energetic. Allana felt like joining him in punishin

g the table. Finally, she raised her voice. "Why don't we go looking for the

m?"

Lando and Tendra looked her way. Lando flashed her a smile she knew was s

upposed to be reassuring. She resented him for it.

“We're not sure that it would do any good at the moment, sweetie,” he told he

r. “We're trying to figure out what to do next.”

“We should just go down there and look. I'm really good at looking”

She saw Lando suppress a shudder. "Amelia, do you know what a transceive

r is?"

She nodded. "It's like a comlink, except you talk into comlinks, and you don't

talk into all transceivers."

"Right. Your mommy and daddy are carrying several transceivers, some of wh

ich they don't even know about. In their speeder, in their equipment."

“I know about tracking devices, too.” She shot him a suspicious look. "You

put tracking devices on them."

"Of course! Comm signals don't go very far in the mines. They don't go thro

ugh stone. So I had special transceivers put in their gear that communicate

with the seismic sensors we've got all over the tunnels. A while ago, aft

er we stopped receiving signals and we had that groundshake, your aunt Tend

ra and I did go down to look."

“Why didn't you tell me? I would have gone with you.”

"Yeah . . . Anyway, there's a lot of fallen stone between us and Han and Le

ia right now. We have to dig through to them."

“And none of our miners are here right now,” Tendra added. "Most of them a

re away on paid leave. We've sent out word asking for volunteers."

“Well, until they get here, we can”

“We can stay here,” Lando said, sounding stern for the first time in the conv

ersation. He fixed her with a stare, and when she did not reply, he turned ba

ck to Tendra.

“I could find them,” Allana whispered.

“What's that, Miss Amelia?” C-3PO, dithering beside R2-D2 on the other side

of the table, leaned forward as if it would help his au-dioreceptors to pi

ck up her words.

She gave the droid a resentful look. “Nothing.”

R2-D2 tweetled, a lengthy statement for him. Allana glanced at C-3PO for a

translation.

The protocol droid leaned toward her again. "He says he approves very high

ly of adventuresome young girls being adventuresome young girls.

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