Chapter Eighteen - In Transit
The next morning, General Kenobi boarded his one-man shuttle and blasted off the surface of Alderaan. As he docked with a compatible hyperspace nacelle ring, Ben fed his destination into the navi-computer and waited for it to complete his course. He was anxious to see Padmé and the children, but he decided that he should be cautious; the computer spit out the coordinates to Narendra. When the flight plan was uploaded to his astromech droid, Kenobi pulled the hyperspace levers.
While in transit, he risked a Force-induced hibernation. He was too excited to sleep naturally, and much too restless to stay conscious for ten hours.
Obi-Wan was still hibernating when the automatic systems released the hyperspace levers and the ship flew into orbit around Narendra. He woke up to the sound of a collision alert. The Jedi grabbed the controls of his ship and steered clear of the shuttle in his path.
Wiping the sleep from his eyes, Obi-Wan reset his destination for Naboo and took off into hyperspace for the two-hour hop.
Wonderful readers, I apologize for the delay. I was so peeved about the computer glitches that I wanted to make sure that the esteemed masters of this site got it fixed before I uploaded anything else.
Foulds: So nice to have a new reader! And thank you for the kind compliment, the story is finished, but I was miffed about the way the website was formatting some stuff, so I held off adding more chapters until the glitches were fixed. Here you go, hope you stick around, there are a half-dozen chapters to go.
Adelaide: Thanks for your patience, Dearie! (In exchange, I also am patiently awaiting the next chapter of "Revelations," wink wink...) I'm glad the change of pace didn't leave you dizzy, I was worried about spending about sixteen chapters on half as many months, then all of a sudden rushing through almost three years in one or two.
Princess-Kinky: Thank you so much for the compliment about liking my Obidala fic, I like that compliment so much! (I see the concept of Obidala as encompassing not only the romance, but also any fic that focuses on a friendship between them, too. For example, my "Sabbatical" dips into romance once or twice, but it's mainly about helping and healing, protecting and playing, since they're so young.) Sorry about the wait for these chapters!
=Keladry sticks her head into Impatience Management and calls, "Is Aerlinnuial here?"=
Aerlinnuial: Thanks for the review, sorry it's been so long. I just uploaded a chapter of another fic and it looks like the blasted glitches are fixed (just ask the women whose fics I beta about how picky I am some time, you'll get an eye-ful), so here you go!
SoloKenobi: I'm not telling what happens, that'll spoil the fun! But a lot of progress is made in the next three chapters.
Today's two chapters are really tiny, but Chapter Twenty will more than make up for it. It's huge.
