Dazed, Luke staggered toward the front of the ship. He barely noticed the sound of
energy bolts, too weak to
penetrate the ship's deflectors, exploding harmlessly outside.
His own safety was currently of little concern to him. With misty eyes he stared as
Chewbacca and Solo adjusted controls.
"I hope that old man managed to knock out that
tractor beam," the Corellian was
saying, "or this is going to be a very short ride."
Ignoring him, Luke returned to the hold area and slumped into a seat, his head
falling into his hands. Leia Organa regarded him quietly for a while, then removed
her cloak. Moving to him, she placed it gently around his shoulders.
"There wasn't anything you could have done," she whispered comfortingly. "It
was all over in an instant."
"I can't believe he's gone," came Luke's reply, his voice a ghost of a whisper.
"I can't"
Solo shifted a lever, staring
nervously ahead. But the
massive bay door was
constructed to respond to the approach of any vessel. The safety feature now served
to
facilitate their escape as the freighter slipped quickly past the still-opening door and
out into free space.
"Nothing," Solo sighed, studying several readouts with
profound satisfaction.
"Not so much as an erg of come-hither. He did it, all right."
Chewbacca rumbled something, and the pilot's attention shifted to another series
of gauges. "Right, Chewie. I forget, for a moment, that there are other ways of
persuading us to return." His teeth flashed in a grin of
determination. "But the
only way they'll get us back in that traveling tomb is in pieces. Take over."
Whirling, he ran out of the cockpit. "Come with me, kid," he shouted at Luke
as he entered the hold. "We're not out of this yet."
Luke didn't respond, didn't move, and Leia turned an angry face to Solo.
"Leave him alone. Can't you see what the old man meant to him?"
An
explosion jarred the ship, nearly tumbling Solo to the deck.
"So what? The old man gave himself to give us a chance to get away. You
want to waste that, Luke? You want Kenobi to have wasted himself?"
Luke's head came up and he stared with vacant eyes at the Corellian. No, not
quite vacant...There was something too old and
unpleasant shining
blindly in the back
of them. Without a word, he threw off the cloak and joined Solo.
Giving him a reassuring smile, Solo gestured down a narrow accessway. Luke
looked in the indicted direction, smiled
grimly, and rushed down it as Solo started
down the opposing passage.
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