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| About twenty minutes later Chera awoke feeling much better then she had just half an hour ago. She got up and looked around. It couldn't be later then nine in the morning local time. She did a quick run of her surroundings memorizing every detail. She began to climb the stairs cautiously, just because Jerik had had such an easy time with them didn't mean she would. She reached the top of the stairs and then opened the door slowly. The door wasn?t exactly light and she didn?t want to be noticed. The inside of the palace was very dark, it probably hadn?t seen any real use since the glory days of the old republic but it was rich with memories. The entire thing oozed with images and pictures, a young queen, a great battle, and a great evil, danger, ?No!? The memories were almost overwhelming; a Jedi Master would probably have trouble surviving them. But she wasn?t a Jedi Master, she would have to block the memories out of her mind in order to keep with the task at hand. "Do you think that there will be anyone there?" Leia asked Luke. "I know there is. Who ever killed Callista is up there." Luke replied. With a shocked look on her face Leia asked. "She's dead?" "Yes." "What? How? Why?" "Two nights ago after we each went to our separate quarters I felt a disturbance in the Force. I went to check it out and I found Callista fighting with another Jedi or Dark Jedi. The figure killed Callista and escaped." "I'm sorry." "It's OK." At the tail end of the trip to the palace was easier then day one. The terrain was flat and not so many trees. But none the less tiring. "Are we there yet?" Sydnee kidded. "No." Mara said. "Hey Mara, how long have you known Luke?" Sydnee said walking up to catch up with Mara. " Eleven years." she replied. "Wow, how do you guys do it? Stay together I mean." "We weren't always like this. When I first met Luke I was still mind shackled to Palpatine. His last words were 'YOU WILL KILL LUKE SKYWALKER'." She said in her most mocking Palpatine voice. "How did you break the bond?" "The evil Jedi clone of Joruus C'Baoth made a clone of Luke and I destroyed him. Thus removing the voice of Palpatine from my mind." "OK, I see." An hour and a half later the group arrived on the rim of the woods. Sydnee spotted four guards, two with stormtrooper rifles and two with lightsabers. "Luke, check this out. There are two guards with lightsabers, do you really think they are Jedi?" Sydnee said with concern. "I don't know and if I try to mind sweep them they will detect where we are." "Let's break into two groups. Leia, Mara, Sydnee, and Han will through the back and I will go in the front." Luke said." "Wait a minute here. You can't just walk in and demand to talk to the head man." "Don't worry, I will be fine. Hey, It's me." Luke said smiling. Remembering back on Endor when Han and Chewie tried to sneak up on the Stormtroopers. "Besides, they are expecting me. They know I'm here. With that Luke walked up to the guards and nodded. "I believe your master wants to see me?" Using the Force to muddle their thoughts. One of the guards promptly responded. "Yes, of course. Right this way." Walking down the halls of the palace Luke notice a lot of the pictures and tapestries have been taken down. The furniture had been either broken or covered up. The rooms that Luke was able to see into they were dust laden. He could tell that some of the rooms were being used because they were either cleaned out or didn't have much dust in them. Chera walked down a dark corridor. Suddenly she heard a sound, somebody was walking toward her. There was no place to hide where she was so she ducked into the nearest door only to find herself in a pillared room. She ducked behind a pillar and peaked around the side of it to see a young blonde woman walking down the hallway. She was very familiar, pretty. Chera couldn't quite get a glimpse of her and strained around the pillar but to no avail. Finally she turned around and pressed her stomach up against the pillar, making it almost impossible for her to run now if she needed to. She carefully edged her face over to side and maneuvered one eye around the pillar. Suddenly she recognized the woman: Callista. But Callista was dead. Master Skywalker had told her that. So what was she doing here? Suddenly Callista broke stride just noticeably, and turned her head slightly to the side almost as if she was looking at Chera. Chera panicked. She swiftly jerked her head back around behind the pillar. Slowly she heard Callista's footsteps start to fall again and then they became regular. As she heard the footsteps fall continuously farther away from her Chera let out a breath she hadn't been aware she was holding. That has been close. She had to be careful now, whoever or whatever that had been she just seen, it hadn't been Callista. That much she was sure of. Chera took a deep breath and prepared to leave the room as she noticed a large throne in the center of the room near a large window. Chera slowly walked over toward it careful not to make any more noise then she had to. She reached out toward the throne. Suddenly she froze, a new presence had entered the room. It was distinctively male. Suddenly a voice boomed through the room "No don't touch that! You cannot touch the throne of the Queen!" Luke finally reached the stairs and quickly began to climb. Then he saw it, on one of the middle steps, a small black bag. He rushed over to it and picked it up. "Yep, it's Chera's all right," he said to himself. He looked up the stairs to the palace. And then began to alight them a little faster. He just had a feeling that this was urgent. |
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