Star Wars: From a Certain Point of View by Schaefer Elizabeth

Author:Schaefer, Elizabeth [Schaefer, Elizabeth]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Science Fiction, Fantasy, Anthologies, Adult
ISBN: 9780345511478
Amazon: 0345511476
Goodreads: 34817927
Publisher: Del Rey
Published: 2017-10-03T07:00:00+00:00

Nothing, Rose thought, is as peaceful as the limitless blue of hyperspace.

She and Paige hadn’t wasted any time getting out of the Atterra system. They’d taken off as soon as they reached the Vixen, and before the end of a twenty-four-hour time block, Rose and Paige were once again alone in the suspended reality following the jump to lightspeed.

Paige leaned back in the pilot’s seat, stretching. “Wow—what a terrible place. Not really what we meant about seeing the galaxy.” She touched her Haysian ore medallion.

Seeing Paige’s fingers straying to her throat, Rose mirrored her sister’s action. The familiar wave of love and connection washed over her. They were both touching a little bit of Otomok at the same time—two halves that made a whole—a reminder of the cause they were fighting for, and a physical link to their lost home.

“Do you think there is any place out there that’s beautiful and…” Rose paused. She’d been going to say peaceful, but it didn’t really seem to be the right word. Without human habitation, Atterra Bravo would have been a place of beauty and peace. But adding people into the mix changed it completely.

“And what?”

“A good place for a picnic,” Rose said. “Never mind. There must be somewhere. It was a stupid question.”

Paige set the autopilot. Hyperspace was a relief after Atterra. She stood up in the little cabin and unrolled a couple of blankets. She grinned at Rose.

“Hyperspace is beautiful,” said Paige. “And we can picnic right here.”

She spread out the blankets and arranged the insulated mug and protein packets as if she and Rose were galactic nobility on a feast day. “Come on, Rose—sit down and let’s look at the map. Let’s plan our interstellar vacation.”

“You are ridiculous,” Rose grumbled.

They wrapped up close together in the blankets, sharing each other’s warmth. Right now, this was home.

Rose had a sudden mental image of the pair of them cocooned together all alone, surrounded by light-years and light-years of empty space, as if they were the only two people alive in the entire galaxy—or at least the only two people who mattered.

But of course there were a lot of other desperate people out there. As if to remind them, Paige pulled up a miniature map of the Outer Rim.

“D’Qar is too far from Atterra to make a regular series of supply runs efficiently,” she said. “We need to find a place to use as an intermediate base for the heavy bomber unit. Leia had a suggestion for a planet we could check out, just in case. There.”

Paige pointed.

Only a short hyperspace jump from Atterra, there was a world on the edge of a mostly uninhabited star system. It was marked “Industrial” and “Independent.”

“‘Refnu,’” Rose read aloud. “How come Leia tells you all this extra stuff?”

“Insurance. If we’re both caught, only one of us knows anything.”

The implication made Rose shiver. “That’s not exactly reassuring,” she said, uncomfortably glad to let her older sister take on the burden of being the one who risked having information tortured out of her.

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