Star Wars: The Empire Strikes Back: So You Want to Be a Jedi? by Adam Gidwitz

Author:Adam Gidwitz
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi, azw3
Publisher: Disney Publishing Worldwide

YOU ARE STANDING on your hands. Yoda is balancing on your feet. The blood has rushed to your face. Rivers of sweat are running down your arms and your neck, and taste salty in your mouth. The air is thick and wet around you.

“Relax you must,” Yoda murmurs. “Use the Force. Think you must not. Strain you must not. Breathe. Rooted you must be. Like a tree.”

There are two stones before you, each about the size of a grapefruit.

“Now,” Yoda murmurs, “the stone. Feel it.”

You focus on the smaller of the two stones. Slowly, it begins to rise. Untouched by anything but your thoughts, and the Force. You lift it, move it, until it rests on top of the other stone.

You have returned to the fen where the X-wing crashed. It has been sinking deeper and deeper into the muck each day. Your supplies are still stacked in messy piles on the bank. As you hold yourself upside down, and focus on keeping one stone balanced on the other, R2-D2 starts beeping frantically.

“Focus…” Yoda purrs.

Still concentrating on the stones, you glance over at R2-D2. He’s standing by the X-wing.

The ship is sliding rapidly into the swamp. At this rate, it will be gone within minutes.

“Concentrate!” Yoda cries. Too late. You go toppling over, throwing the little Jedi to the ground. The stones fall.

You jump to your feet and run to the edge of the swamp. You stare. Only a tip of a wing of the fighter is still visible. R2 continues beeping frantically.

“We’ll never get it out now!”

Yoda appears beside you, dusting himself off from his fall. “So certain are you. Always with you it cannot be done. Hear you nothing I say? Understand you nothing?”

You shake your head, staring at your only means of getting off this fetid, stinking swamp-planet—as it disappears into the muck.

Yoda gestures at the ship. You know what that gesture means.

You look between him and the X-wing. You shake your head. “Master! Moving stones is one thing. This is totally different.”

“No! Not different. Difference is in your mind only. You must unlearn what you have learned.”

You shake your head. “Okay. I’ll try.”

“No. Try not. Do. Or do not. There is no try.”

You take a deep breath. Focus on the ship. You reach out your hand and grip the ship with your mind. It is enormous.

You wrap your mind around every corner, press your thoughts into every edge.

Your mind probes the swamp around the ship.

You begin to lift.

It rises.

And rises.

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