Star Wars - Life and Legend of Obi-Wan Kenobi by Ryder Windham

Author:Ryder Windham [Windham, Ryder]
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi
ISBN: 9780545085595
Publisher: Scholastic Inc.
Published: 2008-09-30T23:00:00+00:00

Obi-Wan continued to monitor Luke, but from greater distances and without any obvious routine. He had no reason to remain in the hovel near the Lars homestead, so like the transient who had lived there previously, Obi-Wan moved on.

He eventually found a slightly more spacious derelict structure in the Jundland Wastes, a small, domed-roofed hut that sat on a bluff at the southwestern edge of the Dune Sea. Like so many other buildings on Tatooine, it was made of synstone, a mixture of crushed local rock and dissolvants that could be cast into almost any shape. The hut was approximately 136 kilometers from the Lars homestead - farther than Obi-Wan would have preferred, but probably still too close to satisfy Owen Lars. From what Obi-Wan could see, no one had lived in the hut for a very long time. An old moisture vaporator stood beside it. Obi-Wan checked to see if the vaporator worked. It didn’t.

To confirm whether the hut was indeed abandoned, Obi-Wan traveled to the property bureau in Tatooine’s capital city, Bestine. Inside the bureau, on the wall beside the information desk, there was a holographic map of Tatooine. Obi-Wan’s eyes happened to fall on a broad, flat-topped mountain that the map identified as Ben’s Mesa.

That sounds familiar, Obi-Wan thought. Then he recalled the loudmouth Dug who had been on the same flight that had brought him to the sand planet.

An antique, oval-faced droid clerk wobbled up behind the information desk, looked at Obi-Wan through tarnished photoreceptors and said, “May I help you, Mister - ”

“Ben,” Obi-Wan replied flatly. “I’m interested in a piece of property. The location coordinates are Alpha-1733-Mu-9033.”

The droid clerk turned his photoreceptors to a data-bank monitor and entered the coordinates. A moment later, he replied, “There are no filed claims or liens for the property at Alpha-1733-Mu-9033, Mr. Ben.”

Not sure he understood, Obi-Wan said, “In other words, the place is available?”

“No one lives there,” the droid answered curtly. “No one wants to live in the Jundland Wastes.” But then the droid’s head made a clicking sound as it evalu-ated the situation, and added, “Do you want to file a claim, sir?”

Obi-Wan considered making a claim under an assumed name, but then decided against it, knowing that he had a better chance of maintaining a secret presence on Tatooine if he stayed off of any official records. “No, thanks,” Obi-Wan said as he moved toward the exit. “I think the property should remain as it is.”

“As you wish, sir,” said the droid, not really caring one way or the other.

Obi-Wan’s next stop was a hardware shop, where he used most of his remaining credits to buy all the tools and supplies that he could afford and his eopie could carry.

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