Star Wars®: Boba Fett #2 Crossfire by Terry Bisson

Author:Terry Bisson
Language: eng
Format: mobi
Publisher: Scholastic
Published: 2002-03-19T05:00:00+00:00

Garr had a secret too, at least as far as Boba was concerned. Or at least, a mystery.

The mystery was whether Garr was a boy or a girl. Boba had gone so long without figuring it out that now he was almost embarrassed to ask. But he knew enough not to let embarrassment hold him back. (That was part of wisdom, too.)

“Garr,” he said one day as they were strolling down a long corridor, “do you mind if I ask you a question?”

“Not at all,” Garr said. “As long as you don’t mind if I don’t answer.”

“Fair enough,” said Boba, recognizing what he’d said when Garr had asked about his mother. “Are you a boy or a girl?”

“Like, male or female?”

“Yeah, you know.”

“I don’t know, actually,” said Garr. “I mean, I know what you mean, but I don’t know yet whether I am male or female. On my planet, it’s not determined until age thirteen.”

“Determined?”

“Somewhere around our thirteenth birthday, our bodies change, and become one or the other. Until then, it’s sort of, you know, up in the air.”

“Cool,” said Boba. “I was just wondering.”

“Does it make a difference?” Garr asked.

“Not to me.”

“Good. I wish everybody was like you, Teff. Did you ever wonder why I don’t hang out with the other ten-year-olds? They want to treat you one way if you’re a boy, and another way if you’re a girl, and there’s no in-between. No way to be just a kid, just a person.”

“Stupid,” said Boba. But he wasn’t surprised. He had always thought most people, including most kids, were a little slow. “Can’t they treat somebody as just a friend?”

“Nope,” said Garr. “But come on! Let’s find something to do!”

They were off again.

The troopship cruised slowly (under light speed) through normal space, on the lookout for Separatist forces. There were no more battles, though they heard rumors of other battles taking place throughout the Republic.

“The ship will be warping into hyperspace soon,” said Garr one day. “It will take us to one of the central worlds, probably Bespin, where we will be offloaded at some orphanage. I hope we will still be together.”

“Me too,” said Boba. He didn’t want to tell his friend that it wasn’t going to happen. Boba had no intention of going to an orphanage.

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