Signs of Life
By JalendaviLady
Interlude
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Disclaimer: I do not own Star Wars.
If you recognize any characters, locations, or things in the following story, George Lucas owns them.
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Several days have passed.
Anakin and Luke both grow stronger by the day. Anakin is finally stumbling around for short distances on his own, while the medics are starting to consider moving Luke out of the crash room and into more comfortable surroundings. Both are being eased back onto semi-solid food; both are starting to wish the words 'strained' and 'mashed' could be removed from the collective vocabulary of the medcenter staff.
Biggs Darklighter has been transferred to the main medcenter on the Executor so the chief medic there can determine if Biggs could be helped by medical intervention or if the nerve damage is too old to be improved by any procedure available or in a position even he cannot operate on. Even with the tentative information and cautions passed on by Garlen, Kendalina, and the other medics, those in the Alliance are hopeful, particularly the extended Skywalker family and Duria Rhyscandor.
On the day following Anakin's visit with Luke, he and Mon Mothma go over what both know about many systems known to be interdicted by order of the Empire. Based on their discussion, several nearby systems are marked as potential sites of the Emperor's personal prisons. Piett and Veers offer to send a few hyperspace probes lying in storage on the Executor to the majority of the nearest of these sites; it does not pass without notice, laughter and quite a bit of nervous relief among the Alliance ranks that some of the same shipment of probes had hunted for them not a year earlier. The probes left a few days ago and the first is due to reach its target in a few hours, at about the time of breakfast aboard Home One.
The SkyLords are due to arrive in a week.
It is midnight, and the medcenter sleeps.
Some more fitfully than others...