Anuvuin: episode #13 The Sale and the Lie

Anuvuin:  episode #13 The Sale and the Lie

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…

Until next time!