Chapter Eleven: Natives
River said farewell to her apprentice and climbed into a beat up old fighter and headed for the moon of Endor. She left the hanger of the Invisible Hand looking forward to her mission.
She readied the fighter for the jump into hyperspace and once she got that done with the fighter soaring in hyperspace she sat back and went over her plan. And that was to be as inconspicuous as possible, and get on friendly terms with the native species the Ewoks.
She heard that they were catious when it came to a new person in thier territory but once they gained trust in them they were very friendly. She also knew that they lived in cities that were built in trees with connecting rope bridges to go from tree to tree, they also were big fans of fireside stories.
She inspected her little data pad device as the fighter was nearing its destination. It looked like every data pad except you could send something from it and it would erase any information on its memory and if it was taken by your enemy to them it would looklike any data pad and they wouldn't even look further than the surface.
The fighter came out of hyperspace and she saw her destination that looked like it was covered in forrest and had a very clear forcast. She would enjoy this mission.
Twenty minutes later she had landed her fighter and had hidden it so that if need be she could make her escape. She had been walking for five minutes when she came to a wall of bushes she walked into them and since she did not see that it was a steep incline she rolled head over heels for at least a hundred yards or so.
"Look I'm twenty-eight and I'm still falling head over heels," she said moaning.
She felt something poke her and when she didn't move it poked her agian and this time she looked to see a foggy image of a teddy bear.
"Why is there a large moving teddy bear here?" she said standing up clumsily.
As she did so the bear started growling and talking in a foriegn language. She sat down on a log and watched it as it stood away from her with it's spear thing pointed at her. She came to the conclusion that this was a Ewok.
"So you're an Ewok? Huh. Hey, hey point that thing some place else I'm not going to eat you," she said as the grimy cream colored Ewok poked her with it's spear.
"A wuta aka ad cheba!!" it said motioning for her to get up.
As she did it stuck the spear in her back and led her somewhere.
As they walked she thought of her earpiece. She knew that it could translate any language and that it also could disifer what you wanted to say and it told how to say it in the language it was translating. She reached into her pocket and put it in her ear.
"So where are we going?" she asked in Ewok.
He stopped and looked at her in astonishment.
"We are going to my village to discuss with my chief what we are to do with you."
"Oh. I'm not an enemy of your's in fact I was wondering if your chief would let me if I could stay with you and your village."
"We will see what the chief has to say," he siad as they resumed walking.
They walked for another half hour or so being joined by other Ewoks on the way and they were talking about what could possibly happen to her and most of them were not something comfertable to think about.
They eventually came to a grove of large, large trees and she was taken to a dimly lit room with a deep brown furred Ewok clad with a headdress sitting in the room.
There was an exchange of pleasentries then the discussion turned to her fate, whether they should burn her or let her stay. They questioned her about her past and loyalties and when they were finished the chief was silent for some time. After much deliberation she was granted permission to stay and that she was welcome in the village as a member.
She was also told that there would be a feast in her honor that evening.
One of the Ewoks waiting outside the room showed her to a room for her and she set to work cleaning herself up and doning a cream colored dress.
