Part 1
Previously: Summoner
Skywalker has just made a deal with Jabba and another Hutt. He wants to become a Maurder, as well as
sell his pregnant wife as a slave. His
actions will have severe consequences for himself in the future, as you will
find out much later.
Summoner
bows and says, "You have yourselves a deal.
I will be back shortly with your merchandise."
Rhun is now 5 years old, which makes Owen 4.
Anyway, he
comes home and says, "Shmi, dear. You have
to come into town…there is something I need to show you."
"Oh really?
What is it, dear?"
"It's a surprise."
Shmi starts to get the boys ready, but
Summoner says, "No, this is a surprise for you to see…alone. Don't worry, I'll get dad to watch the kids."
Shmi is a little curious now, but she could
never prepare herself for the events to follow.
AS Summoner
opens the speeder door for her, she says, "I wish you'd tell me what this was
about, honey…you know how much I HATE kind of things…especially when I'm
like this (pointing to her large stomach)
"Don't
worry, dear. Everything will be
explained."
He drives up to Jabba's Palace.
"What are we here for?"
"The surprise, what else."
"I thought
it would be in a different kind of place."
Summoner doesn't
have time to reply, because an armed Maurder rushes out of the palace and holds
a gun to Shmi. She can do nothing,
because more men like the first one surround her.
"What
the…Summoner, help me. You seem to be
plenty free."
Summoner only replies with, "No. You are theirs now. I just sold you to this Hutt. I'm finally rid of you. I'm a Maurder now, Surprise!"
And that is the last she hears for a couple
hours, because one of the guys shoots her with a stun gun. During the time she was out, they put a
special detonator-type thing in her arm that would blow her up…that's what they
do to all slaves so they can't escape.
Once Shmi wakes up, the Hutt explained it to her. She hoped it was just a bad dream, but she
knew better.
The first
realization that came to her was, "Rhun and Owen…I'll never see them
again! I hope they're all right."
Then she thought of her husband. The thought of him made her sick.
"How could he do this to me…and this
unborn child? One thing's for sure;
I'll never admit that Summoner's the father.
If this child ever asks about his father, I'll just tell him he doesn't
have one. Summoner doesn't even deserve
to be a father to this child. He
certainly won't raise it, or do anything fatherly. So basically, this child doesn't have a father."
After
Summoner took Shmi to the Hutts, he received payment right away. For a pregnant
slave, they gave 9,000,000,000 credits.
He hid them in a special compartment in his landspeeder. Then he went into the bushes and got dirt
all over himself, ripped his clothes, and all that. If anyone asked about Shmi, and he knew they would, he would say
how they had been attacked by banthas, and how she was trampled to death…so
much so that the body was unrecognizable.
Wit that story thought up, he rushed back home. Lowdun was cleaning off he and his wife's
landspeeder when he got back.
"Where's Shmi?"
Summoner put on the best act he could,
"Banthas came out of nowhere and attacked us…I just barely got away. I thought Shmi was right behind me, but when
I looked back, she was…dead…and banthas were trampling all over it, making it
unrecognizable. I helplessly watched as
my wife's body got crushed."
Lowdun looked at Summoner. There was something wrong here, but he
wasn't sure what it was, so he let the subject drop in his mind.
Instead, he
went up to Summoner and said, "I'm so sorry."
He believed
his son, he had to.
"Where are
my kids?"
"Out back…with your mother. I think we should come up with a good way to
tell them…I mean there's no good way, but there are better ways than
others."
Again, Lowdun looked at Summoner.
"Something's
missing about him…at once Lowdun thought he knew what it was, but there was
only one way to test it…