Star Wars: X-Wing VIII: Starfighters of Adumar by Aaron Allston

Author:Aaron Allston [Allston, Aaron]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Fiction, scifi, Star Wars, New Republic, X-Wing
ISBN: 9780553574180
Publisher: Bantam
Published: 2011-10-27T10:27:59+00:00

Chapter Nine

The rest of the day offered hopeful news, and more than once.

By the time Wedge and Janson, joined by Hobbie, found a dining establishment where a small private room would afford them a certain amount of peace, the verdict was in on Cheriss. “She’ll make it,” Tycho explained via comlink. “She’s responding well to the bacta and should be released in a day, maybe less.”

“Good,” Wedge said. “Make sure the medical staff knows to notify me when they’re to release her. I want to be there as a friendly face when they cut her loose.”

“Will do.”

“And get down here. We have plenty to do today.”

“Have you ever thought about sleeping, boss?”

Wedge grinned. “Which is, exactly, what?”

“Sort of like being shot until you’re unconscious, except there’s no bacta, and you often end up feeling better than when you started.”

“Sounds good. I’ll give it a try someday. Call in when you reach groundside. Out.” Wedge folded up his headset and returned his attention to the menu, a flexible flatscreen that showed the evening’s available dishes as a series of animations running around the screen engaged in blastsword duels with one another. “I don’t think I want to eat anything that looks like it wants to cut its way back out of me.”

Hobbie gave him a dubious look. “Did you say we had plenty to do still?”

Wedge nodded.

“What, exactly?”

“We’re going to try to subvert an Imperial admiral.”

“Oh,” Hobbie said. “Something easy. While you’re doing that, why don’t Wes and I smuggle ourselves aboard Agonizer and destroy her with thrown rocks?”

Wedge gave him a grin. “With the right tools—say, a hundred thousand Ewoks and a month to prepare—you could probably do that. In the meantime, we have the right tools to subvert our Imperial admiral.”

“What tools?”

“Oh, Wes’s maturity, your optimism, and my diplomatic skills.”

Hobbie buried his face in his hands. “We’re doomed.”

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