Star Wars - New Jedi Order - Emissary of the Void - Episode IV - Relic of Ruin by Greg Keyes

Author:Greg Keyes [Keyes, Greg]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2002-10-07T01:35:18+00:00

“What did you mean back there?” Klin-Fa Gi asked. “About a dark side weapon?”

Following the Free People, they had managed to elude Yuuzhan Vong patrols and re-enter the jungle.

“Oh, I don’t know,” Uldir replied, tensing. “What’s that on your back?” He indicated the spider-like pack that clung to her living bodysuit at the shoulders.

She quirked a little smile. “What I came here to find. But if you think it’s something the Emperor built, you’re plotting a course without coordinates at either end or in the middle.”

“Well, what is it, then?”

“Wait.” she stopped, listening. “They’re bound to send a hunt after us. Where are they?”

“Hopefully way behind us. We should be able to reach the starfighters before they catch up.”

“Maybe.”

Something crackled off in the undergrowth, and she reached for her lightsaber. It wasn’t there.

Uldir glanced toward the noise too, saw it was one of the Psadan, and relaxed.

“What…?” Klin-Fa gasped, still feeling for her missing weapon. Then her eyes narrowed, focusing on Uldir.

“Right,” he said, holding her Jedi weapon where she could see it. “I took it off you when we were all tangled up back there.”

She tossed her dark hair. “Impossible. I would have known.”

“Pride isn’t the way of the Jedi, is it?” Uldir asked. “I may not have much Force ability, but it’s enough to hide my intentions if there’s enough distraction - and my opponent has so much contempt for me she doesn’t give me a second thought.”

“So now what?”

“Now you tell me what’s going on, or you can try to get this back. Klin-Fa Gi, you’ve endangered me and my crew for the last time. You say you’re on a mission for Master Skywalker, but word is you’re dead, and he doesn’t know anything about a mission. You say you aren’t a dark Jedi, but how am I to believe you at this point, after so many lies?”

She was silent for a long while as they moved quickly through the jungle. They exited the burn zone surrounding the Yuuzhan Vong compound, and strange warblings filled the air as they upset some local fliers.

“I have to tell you this anyway,” she said at last, “because I still need your help.”

“Then be sure you don’t leave anything out”

“I won’t. Not this time.” She slowed to a fast walk and spoke without looking at him, her eyes darting through the undergrowth.

“I hate not being able to feel the Yuuzhan Vong in the Force,” she said. “It makes me feel stupid.”

“Yet you managed to enter their camp and leave alive.”

“Oh, first you think I’m a dark Jedi, now you think I’m a Vong?”

“It’s just suspicious, that’s all. And there is the way you’re dressed.”

“Yeah, well, I know a lot about the Yuuzhan Vong, okay? And about that camp. Almost a standard year ago I was captured by them.”

“Captured?”

“Yes. Me and another Jedi, Bey Gandan. We were following Wurth Skidder’s lead, posing as captives in hopes of fighting them from within. We ended up getting placed as slaves on a Shaper ship. We didn’t even know about Shapers - we had seen only warriors up until then.

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