Star Wars - New Jedi Order - Emissary of the Void - Episode III - War on Wayland by Greg Keyes

Author:Greg Keyes [Keyes, Greg]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2002-04-06T20:17:36+00:00

They traveled for the rest of the daylight through steadily steepening terrain. Twice, for no reason Uldir could tell, they hid in thickets, remaining utterly silent until some unspoken signal released them to walk again. That night they camped in the cavernous shelter of the gnarled roots of a fantastically huge tree.

“Why do you call my weapon a shame weapon?” Uldir asked Txer, as the light faded to nothing.

“Is shame to use. Not from life.” He paused, searching for words. “Machine,” he said at last, as if the word bit him on the way out of his mouth.

“Oh,” Uldir replied. It made sense - these were people who lived simply off what the land provided. Given that the Empire had been here, most of their experiences with technology had probably been of the negative sort.

“Is that why some fight for the Cut-Up-People? Because they also hate machines?” That was putting it mildly, of course. The Yuuzhan Vong considered all “dead” technology to be an abomination, and those who used it so unclean as to deserve extermination. Their conquest of the galaxy was more of a holy war than one for territory - they had long since conquered worlds enough for their people to live on.

“Wish-to-bes think like this, yes,” Txer replied. “They say Cut-Up-People like us. They are not. Life is for respect. They do not respect life. They break it, twist it, make it as they want, make it foul. They do same to us.”

“You’re right about that,” Uldir told him. “I’ve seen it happen, on world after world. And in the end, those who help them suffer more than those who resist them.”

“Offworld wisdom we do not need,” Txer said, stiffly. “Free People see this for themselves. Need not your eyes to see.”

“I understand that,” Uldir said.

“We fight them, like we fought Dark Man,” Txer went on.

Stone weapons against the Vong? Uldir thought. That was an uneven fight. Unless the equation changed, the Free People were doomed.

“I should go on alone, when the light comes,” Uldir said. “I don’t want to put your people in danger.”

“We fight them,” Txer said firmly. “And if you lie, we fight you too. We fight until offworlders all gone, or until we all die. Sleep now. Tomorrow we enter Cut-Up territory, and then no sleep.”

Uldir spent a restless night trying not to worry about his crew, hoping they were still alive and had managed to find a hiding place. He did not think Klin-Fa Gi would stop to sleep, and he felt her drawing ahead of him, and that made him even more anxious.

When he did sleep, his mind built dreams whose architecture was darker than the night.

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