Star Wars - Young Jedi Knights 03 - The Lost Ones by Kevin J. Anderson & Rebecca Moesta

Author:Kevin J. Anderson & Rebecca Moesta [Anderson, Kevin J. & Moesta, Rebecca]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2012-06-09T11:09:17+00:00

“You’ll be scavenging for the rest of your years, selling trinkets to earn enough credits for your next meal. Do you really have any chance for power or glory or importance of your own?”

Again, Zekk refused to answer. Brakiss leaned forward, his beautifully chiseled features radiating kindness and concern. “I’m offering you that chance, boy. Are you brave enough to take it?”

Zekk searched for the strength to resist, focused on a thread of anger. “The same chance you offered to Jaina and Jacen? They told me how you kidnapped them, brought them to the Shadow Academy , and tortured them.”

“Tortured them?” Brakiss laughed and shook his blond head. “I suppose after being pampered all their lives, a bit of hard work might seem like torture.

I offered to train them to become powerful Jedi—I admit it was a mistake.

We wanted young Jedi Knights to train, but the candidates we invited were too high-profile. The risk was greater than we had anticipated, and it called too much attention to our academy.”

“So I decided to change my plan. As I told you, the Force moves as strongly within the less-fortunate as in those who are rich and powerful. Your social status doesn’t concern me in the least, Zekk—only your talent and your willingness to develop it. Tamith Kai and I have decided to search among the lower levels of society for people whose potential is just as great as in those among the higher levels, and yet whose disappearance won’t cause such a stir. People with the incentive to work with us.’

Zekk scowled, but Brakiss’s eyes blazed. “If you join us, I guarantee you the name of Zekk will never be ignored or forgotten.”

The cell door opened again, and a stormtrooper held out a tray with steaming beverages and delicious-looking pastries. “Let’s have a snack while we keep talking,” Brakiss said. “I trust most of your questions have been answered, but feel free to ask anything else you wish.”

Zekk realized that he was voraciously hungry, and he took three of the pastries, licking his lips as he ate them. He had never tasted anything so wonderful in his life.

The implications of Brakiss’s words terrified him, but the questions about his future bubbled to the surface again and again in his mind. Although Zekk didn’t want to admit it, he could not shake the feeling that Brakiss and his promises made a lot of sense.

As Brakiss sealed the door behind him on his way out, he turned to the stormtrooper guards in the hall. “See that the boy gets a nicer room, he said. “I don’t think we’ll have much trouble with him.”

The master of the Shadow Academy glided down the corridor as the old TIE

pilot marched up to report. Qorl was still in his black armored suit and cradled his skull-like helmet in his powerful droid arm. “The captured Rebel cruiser Adamant is now enclosed within our shields, Lord Brakiss,” he said.

“Its weaponry is being off-loaded even as we speak.”

Brakiss smiled broadly. “Excellent. Was it as big a shipment as we expected?”

Qorl nodded.

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