The Corellian Trilogy - 02 - Assault At Selonia by Star Wars

Author:Star Wars
Language: eng
Format: mobi
Tags: Science Fiction
Published: 2010-08-26T08:25:31+00:00

CHAPTER NINE

Getting Involved

Leia crouched down in place, deeper into shadow, putting out her left hand to balance herself a bit. Now if only whoever that was would decide he had been hearing things, or that the wind had blown in through the window and made noise, all would be well. He would go back to sleep, and Leia and Mara could get on about their business.

"Magminds?" The voice was closer, more distinct this time, and sounded a bit more worried. Leia saw a sudden little bloom of light sweep over them and heard a stair creak. He was coming down stairs. She turned to Mara-and realized that Mara was not there anymore.

There was a bump, a thud, from the main room, and the shifting shadows in the kitchen told Leia that the beam of the man's handlight was sweeping across the room. "Hold it," the voice said. "I've got a blaster trained right on you an" The light of a blaster shot flared, briefly illuminating the kitchen like a bolt of lightning that was there and then gone. A crash, a thud, and the glow from the hand light died. Leia’s lightsaber was in her hand and on in an instant.

She rushed out of the kitchen-and stopped -dead in her tracks as she saw the scene lit by the blood red glow of her lightsaber blade. There was a heavyset man, or at least the remains of one-sitting up on the stairs in his nightshirt, a neat hole through his chest. The look on his face was one of pure astonishment.

"He dropped the handlight and broke it," Mara said, clearly irritated with the dead man, as if he had broken the light on purpose.

"We could have used that. The fool didn't even have a blaster."

"That's all you've got to say?"

"That's all there's time for, if we want to live through this," Mara said. "If it helps, I was going to try and knock him out, not shoot him, until he claimed to have a gun."

"It doesn't help much," Leia said, staring at the dead man. He was their enemy. If he had managed to raise the alarm, or caught them himself, or if he had had a blaster, things would look very bad. But telling herself those things didn't make him any less dead. And there was no time. "We have to move," she said, coming out of it. "If there was one of them sleeping here, there might be more. And someone might have heard, or this one might have called it in before he came out for a look."

"Right," said Mara. "Back to the foyer and down. Unless you want to try another three floors on a homemade rope."

"No, thank you," Leia said. There were risks in heading down the inside of the building, but nothing like those involved in another run down the outside. "Let's go."

It was time to move fast. Leia led the way back to the foyer, stumbling in the darkness once or twice. She

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