“At the world they call Dantooine they did not recover their dead. These people have no sense of what is proper or honorable. That they removed this jeedai tells me something valuable.”
Krag Val, his head still held low, glanced at Shedao Shai. “What does it tell you, Master?”
“It tells me this jeedai is yet alive.” Shedao Shai plucked the plump ngdin from the floor and held it up. On its belly countless cilia glistened within bloodstained mucus. Shedao Shai leaned forward and bit deeply into the ngdin, tasting the blood, feeling the stings. He tore flesh from the creature and swallowed, paying no mind to the cool sensation of fluid running down over his chin.
“This jeedai lives, and I will again taste his blood as he dies.”
Also by Michael A. Stackpole
WARRIOR: EN GARDE
WARRIOR: RIPOSTE
WARRIOR: COUPE
LETHAL HERITAGE
BLOOD LEGACY
LOST DESTINY
NATURAL SELECTION
ASSUMPTION OF RISK
BRED FOR WAR
GRAVE COVENANT
PRINCE OF HAVOC
DEMENTIA
A GATHERING EVIL
EVIL ASCENDING
EVIL TRIUMPHANT
ONCE A HERO
TALION: REVENANT
EYES OF SILVER
A HERO BORN
AN ENEMY REBORN
WOLF AND RAVEN
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STAR WARS: THE BACTA WAR
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They had been living on the very edge of disaster for so very long, fighting battles, literally, for decades, running from bounty hunters and assassins. Even the first time Han and Leia had met, on the Death Star, of all places, and in the gallows of the place, to boot! So many times, it seemed, one or more of them should have died.
And yet, in a strange way, that close flirting with death had only made Han think them all the more invulnerable. They could dodge any blaster, or piggyback on the side of an asteroid, or climb out a garbage chute, or . . .
But not anymore. Not now. The bubble of security was gone.
To Han Solo, the galaxy suddenly seemed a more dangerous place by far . . .
—from Vector Prime
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