Star Wars Journal - Captive to Evil by Princess Leia Organa by Jude Watson

Author:Jude Watson
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub
Published: 1998-07-02T23:01:35+00:00

Darth Vader came for me with a squad of troopers. They bound my hands and kept their blasters at the ready. I didn’t ask any questions. I was gathering myself for the next torture session. I guessed that they were bringing me to one of their infamous “interrogation rooms.”

But instead, I was brought to the main observation deck. I was ushered into the presence of Grand Moff Tarkin himself.

I had met him before. We’d had numerous clashes in the Senate, before the Emperor rewarded him with a military command. Governor Tarkin is known for his cunning and his ruthlessness. His skin is gray, as though there isn’t blood running through his veins, but a vile toxic fuel. He’s more like a machine than a man—like Vader, but without the helmet and breath-mask.

Tarkin got things rolling by informing me that he’d signed my death order. If he thought this would frighten me, he was wrong. I had expected it. I was ready to meet death, if it came. More ready than they knew.

But then he surprised me. I expected him to question me about the hidden Rebel base. I was prepared to play the same cat-and-mouse game with him as I did with Vader. After a torture droid, Tarkin would be child’s play, I figured.

But Tarkin turned out to be the cruelest of all my tormentors.

He directed my attention to the viewscreens. I recognized the blue world spinning in the middle of the most beautiful star constellation in a thousand galaxies. Alderaan.

Tarkin told me that if I didn’t reveal the site of the Rebel base, he would test the Death Star’s destructive power on my home planet. He would blow it up.

The look in his gray eyes chilled me to the bone. It wrenched a cry from my throat. I told him that Alderaan was a peaceful planet. We had even outlawed weapons.

Tarkin was unmoved. Would I prefer a military target? Then name it. Where was the Rebel base?

Who would I condemn to die? Innocent children, men and women who were leading their lives peacefully, securely, on my own home planet? Or soldiers?

I saw satisfaction in Tarkin’s gaze. He had me, he knew it—and he triumphed in it.

I stared at the blue planet. I couldn’t let it be destroyed! I couldn’t just stand there and watch! If I had to see that, I’d die right there.

But I couldn’t betray my comrades, either.

There was another option. Only one. I had to delay them. And in the meantime, I could escape, or be killed, or manage to outwit them somehow. Alderaan would be spared, because what would be the point of destroying it if they couldn’t use it to gain information from me?

“Dantooine,” I said. The planet was the location of an old base, in a remote outer system. It would take them time to discover that we had abandoned the base there some time ago. We never stayed in one place very long. “They’re on Dantooine.” My voice was a whisper, as if it had been wrenched out of me.

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