The Empire Strikes Back by Glut Donald F

Author:Glut, Donald F. [Glut, Donald F.]
Language: eng
Format: azw3
Published: 0101-01-01T00:00:00+00:00

But I don’t know why we can’t see Yoda now.’

‘It’s the Jedi’s time to eat, too,’ the creature answered.

But Luke was eager to be on his way. ‘Will it take long to get there? How far is he?’

‘Not far, not far. Be patient. Soon you will see him. Why wish you become a Jedi?’

‘Because of my father, I guess,’ Luke answered, as he reflected that he never really knew his father that well. In truth his deepest kinship with his father was through the lightsaber Ben had entrusted to him.

Luke noticed the curious look in the creature’s eyes as he mentioned his father. ‘Oh, your father,’ the being said, sitting down to begin his vast meal.

‘A powerful Jedi was he. Powerful Jedi.’

The youth wondered if the creature were mocking him. ‘How could you know my father?’ he asked a little angrily. ‘You don’t even know who I am.’

He glanced around at the bizarre room and shook his head. ‘I don’t know what I’m doing here

Then he noticed that the creature had turned away from him and was talking to a corner of the room. This really is the final straw, Luke thought.

Now this impossible creature is talking to thin air!

‘No good is this,’ the creature was saying irritably. ‘This will not do.

I cannot teach him. The boy has no patience!’

Luke’s head spun in the direction the creature was facing. Cannot teach.

No patience. Bewildered, he still saw no one there. Then the truth of the situation gradually became as plain to him as the deep lines on the little creature’s face. Already he was being tested - and by none other than Yoda himself!

From the empty corner of the room, Luke heard the gentle, wise voice of Ben Kenobi responding to Yoda. ‘He will learn patience,’ Ben said.

‘Much anger in him,’ the dwarfish Jedi teacher persisted. ‘Like in his father.’

‘We’ve discussed this before,’ Kenobi said.

Luke could no longer wait. ‘I can be a Jedi,’ he interrupted. It meant more than anything else to him to become a part of the noble band that had championed the causes of justice and peace. ‘I’m ready, Ben … Ben

…” The youth called to his invisible mentor, looking about the room in the hope of finding him. But all he saw was Yoda sitting across from him at the table.

‘Ready are you?’ the skeptical Yoda asked. ‘What know you of ready? I have trained Jedi for eight hundred years. My own counsel I’ll keep on who is to be trained.’

‘Why not me?’ Luke asked, insulted by Yoda’s insinuation.

‘To become a Jedi,’ Yoda said gravely, ‘takes the deepest commitment, the most serious mind.’

‘He can do it,’ Ben’s voice said in defense of the youth.

Looking toward the invisible Kenobi, Yoda pointed at Luke. ‘This one I have watched a long time. All his life has he looked away … to the horizon, to the sky, to the future. Never his mind on where he was, on what he was doing.

Adventure, excitement.’ Yoda shot a glaring look at Luke.

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