The ​Joiner King (Star Wars: Dark Nest 1.) 69% 11 csillagozás

„Gorog's no assassin!” Ben said. „She's my best friend.”
„She's an insect, Ben.”
„So? Your best friend's a lizard.”

Chapter 28

Tenel Ka finally turned to look at him. „What about the will of the Force, Jacen? Why not trust it?”
The reference to the Jedi's new understanding of the Force made Jacen think of Vergere—the lost Master who had opened their eyes to so much of that new understanding—and he smiled at the first truth she had taught him: Everything I tell you is a lie.
To Tenel Ka, he said, „Should I trust a river because it wants to run downhill?”
Tenel Ka frowned. „I am the one who asks the questions on Hapes, Jedi Solo.”
Jacen chuckled. „Okay. The Force isn't a deity, Tenel Ka. It's not self-conscious, and it isn't capable of caring what happens to us. It's a flow. Its only will is to remove that which blocks it. When we facilitate that flow, when we allow it to run through us to others, we're in harmony. We're using the light side.”
„And the dark side?”
„Is when we block that flow and turn it to our own ends,” Jacen said. „We keep it from others. And when we release it too quickly, we turn it from a nurturing stream into a destructive flood.”
„Didn't Vergere teach that our intentions make an act dark or light?” Tenel Ka asked.
„She did,” Jacen admitted. „And she was telling the truth, from a certain point of view. If you have good intentions, you tend to let the Force flow through you. If not, you tend to bottle it up inside, and it starts eating away at your good looks.”
Tenel Ka looked at him from the corner of one eye. „I prefer my truths to remain true from all points of view.”
„Sorry,” Jacen said. „The Force is too big.”
„And this is what you learned in the five years you were gone?”
„The core of it, yes.”
Tenel Ka studied the ground for a moment, then looked back at him. „It took five years to learn that?”
„There was a lot of travel time,” Jacen said.

Chapter 23

„Do you need navigation data to the Colony gateway?”
„That won't be necessary,” Gray responded. „We have a course to the Lizil nest, and your son assured us that someone would be waiting—”
„Our son?” Leia interrupted.
„Yes.” Gray sounded confused. „The Queen Mother's new consort. He was the one who, uh, convinced her to intervene.”
A loud smack sounded from the pilot's seat. Leia glanced over to find Han holding his palm to his brow.
„You think you know him,” Han said, shaking his head. „And then he tries to start a war.”

Chapter 27

„…We could do another stowaway sweep.”
„And find something we missed the last six times?” Mara shook her head and smiled. „Go back to your droid, Skywalker. You're just trying to get me into our cabin again.”
„I'm predictable that way,” Luke said. „But pay attention to this feeling. Whatever's causing it, you seem to have a special connection to it.”
„Lucky me,” Mara opened the hatch, then looked over her shoulder before stepping through. „And about that cabin.”
„Yeah?”
„Maybe later.”

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They came to a cockeyed intersection, and Luke stopped to listen to a strange pulsing sound that was rumbling out of a crooked side tunnel. It was muted, eerie, and rasping, but there was a definite melody and rhythm.
„Music,” he said.
„If you're from Tatooine, maybe,” Mara said. „The rest of us would call that a rancor belch.”
„This one likez it,” Saba said. „It makez her tail shake.”

Chapter 5

The silence this time was even longer than the last. Strictly speaking, the Solos were not available for assignments. Han wasn't even a Jedi, and Leia's status was completely informal. The council just kept asking them to help out, they just kept doing it, and every Master in the room knew the order had been exploiting the Solos' selfless natures for far too long.
„Someone else needs to contact them,” Mara finally said. „It's getting so bad that Leia cringes whenever she sees Luke's face on the holocomm.”
„I can do it,” Kyp offered. „I'm used to making Leia cringe.”

Chapter 1

"You haven't heard of the XR-eight-oh-eight-g?'
„Should we have?” Leia asked.
Juun pasted on a small Sullustan smirk. „Not if I've been doing my job.”

Chapter 6

„I feel the same,” Tekli agreed. The furry little Chadra-Fan twitched her thick-ended snout. „Yet we avoid the battle-meld now because we dislike sharing feelings among ourselves.”
„That's different,” Tahiri said. „We get on each other's nerves.”
„To put it mildly,” Jaina said. „I'll never forget how that blood hunger came over me the first time Tesar saw a rallop.”
„Or how twisted inside this one felt when Alema wanted to nest with that Rodian rope-wrestler.” Tesar fluttered his scales, then added, „It was a week before he could hunt again.”

Chapter 7

„We're not shooting first.” Han strapped on his BlasTech holster.

Chapter 9

Finally, Han said, „I don't get it. What's the problem?”
„I've never heard of a Jedi using the Force that way,” Luke said.
„So he's creative,” Han asked. „He's my kid. What'd you expect?”

Chapter 12