Star Wars®: The Last of the Jedi #10: Reckoning by Jude Watson

Author:Jude Watson [Watson, Jude]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Scholastic
Published: 2008-03-19T04:00:00+00:00

“At least we got through to Ferus about Eve,” Clive said.

“What did Solace say?” Astri kept her eyes on the nav screen. They had been pulled into a routine check by Imperial vessels and were lined up on a spaceport runway. Imperial starfighters buzzed overhead, making sure no one took off.

It was a tense situation, but they had prepared for it. At the last spaceport Clive had used Imperial equipment to key in a new ID profile and registry.

“Who, Lady Chatty? Nothing. She just said, ‘I understand,’ and broke the communication. She was with Ferus and Flame, though, so Flame is caught, no question. The question is, what do we do now?”

“Vader mentioned the Bespin system,” Astri said. “We could head out there and see what we can find out.”

“That’s a long way to go just to noodle around,” Clive said. “We don’t have any clear information to go on. We still don’t know what Twilight is.” He watched Astri’s face. He was beginning to be able to read it. “Don’t blame yourself for what happened at the spaceport,” he said. “You couldn’t shoot him. That’s a good thing. And we got away.”

“It was a failure of nerve,” Astri said. “I could have compromised everything. I had my blaster aimed at him. But I couldn’t fire directly at him.”

“Maybe we’re not cut out to be spies. Look, we can fight the Empire with everything we have, but we don’t have to turn into them.”

Astri stared at the nav screen but she was picturing the scene back at the spaceport. The Imperial officer, looking at her. She, pointing her blaster at him. All she could see was his eyes, young and afraid.

She’d moved the blaster just a couple of millimeters and blasted his computer instead. The officer had sprung back, fumbling for his blaster, and she’d moved forward quickly and placed her blaster against his head. “The next one is for you if you move,” she’d said. She put all her will into the words, but she’d known they were hollow.

Then Clive had arrived. They’d taken the officer’s blaster and comlink, and had destroyed the rest of the communication equipment. It bought them time. But they knew that the next ship to land would give him access to a comm system.

“We’re already wanted for stealing the cruiser,”

Clive said as they left the planet. “So now we’ll be wanted twice. Destroying an Imperial computer system should get us a couple of years in jail, no question.”

Astri wished she knew how far she was willing to go to be a resistance fighter. She knew she wasn’t willing to kill. No, Clive was right. She didn’t want to turn into them. She didn’t want to lose sight of who she was.

She stared at the screen, waiting for their number to be called up and given a release. No ships had taken off in some time. “Something’s wrong,” she said. “The line should be moving faster than this.”

“Let me check it out,” Clive said. He lowered the ramp and exited the craft, then ambled off toward a knot of spacers talking in a group.

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