Chapter 9 - Waiting
'Death? Whose?'
Leia had known the moment that her home planet had been destroyed. She had both seen it happen and felt the people's distress when they were killed, though the feeling had been very brief, as it had been all over in a matter of a few minutes-nearly instantaneous. Now, she knew many others had lost their grip on the physical realm, though nowhere near as many as those from her planet, which had been destroyed by the Death Star a few years prior. No, it was a smaller amount, yet there were others who seemed to be on the edge; she could feel it. She had been worried about her brother before; now she was torn between hoping that he had not been caught up in whatever had happened and hoping that he was near enough to lend his aide to whoever it was that was in trouble.
Be at ease, Luke is just fine, said a voice. She had recently begun to understand that there was one in particular that was able to speak directly to her brother through the Force and was confident that she had just heard him for herself. She figured that if he was telling her that Luke was okay, then maybe she had been worried over nothing. …For now…
Okay, maybe not…
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Luke was trying to 'trust his instincts', but it seemed that they were telling him to stay right where he was. How could that be? He was supposed to be finding someone who was in danger, yet he was just waiting around-why? For a sign? Luke sighed. At this rate, he was never going to finish this little mission he had been sent on. Looking around him, he saw very little sign that anyone had ever been here before. Why had he chosen this moon, orbiting this planet, in this star system? It just did not seem to add up. He felt his instincts had not been wrong, yet he was in the middle of nowhere. Literally…
He spun around. He thought he had heard someone, though he could not be sure. Who would be dumb enough to come here? 'Well, obviously I was. So the question is, who else would come here? And why?' he corrected himself. In the distance, he now could make out a spot on the horizon, though at this distance, he could not possibly be able to figure out exactly what it was or what it was doing in the middle of nowhere…
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Lonny was faced with a nearly impossible decision and no time to think twice about it. 'They are all counting on me, though they think that I am too young. They almost did not let me leave the first time… Now their lives depend on the decision that I make. Maybe I have not been seen yet. But even then, they have probably heard my voice. There is little that I can do about him now,' he thought sadly. He just was not prepared for making the choice that had been set before him. 'Maybe I can just sneak around and find out if there are any survivors before I end up making a decision. After all, I do need to find out what happened to Maria and if she ever found it. If the Troopers find it, they will know that I have been here and continue to look for me in this area.' He knew that his fate was connected to the strange object, though he did not fully understand what it was or what the connection meant. So he set off looking for it, Maria, and the others, hoping that he would not find that it was a waste of time to do so and that his friend's life was either spared, allowing him to have definite company, or that it had a swift end, so that he would not suffer for too long. Unfortunately, he had had a bad feeling that he would never see him again when he had set his friend down. 'Maybe it was not wise for me to have done that. Maybe I should have taken him outside of the village, though it would have taken longer. I likely killed him the moment I chose to leave him there,' Lonny thought, regretfully. He could not change the past, though. He still had people to find and check on. Determined not to let anyone else down, he crept toward the next dwelling, wondering what he would find, if anything…
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