"MOESTA, KEVIN J. ANDERSON REBECCA - SHADOW ACADEMY" - читать интересную книгу автора (Moesta Rebecca)

Jacen said, thinking of the menagerie of pets he had collected since
coming to the jungle moon. "But the trip is what I came here to talk to
you about."

Luke raised his eyebrows. "Yes?"

"I-I was hoping you could talk to Tenel Ka and convince her to come with
us to see Lando Calrissian's mining station."

Luke's brows drew together, and he chose his words carefully. "Why is it
important to change her mind?"

"Because Jaina and Lowbacca and I are all going, 11 Jacen said, "and . .
. and it just won't be the same without her," he finished lamely.

Luke's face relaxed, and his eyes sparkled with humor. "It's not so easy
to change the mind of a Force-wielding warrior from Dathomir, you know,
he said.

"But it doesn't make sense that she wants to stay behind," Jacen
exclaimed. "She made up some dumb excuse that it would be boring-said
she was sure Corusca gems weren't any more beautiful than rainbow gems
from Gallinore, and she's seen plenty of those. But she didn't sound
bored; she sounded worried or nervous."

"We must think for ourselves," Luke said, "and sometimes that means we
have to make difficult or unpopular decisions." Luke put an arm around
Jacen's shoulders and led him toward the door.

"Go feed your pets now. Have a safe journey to GemDiver Station-and rest
assured, Tenel Ka has good reasons."

Tenel Ka woke with a start, shivering and drenched with perspiration in
the cool, stonewalled chamber. Sunset-copper hair hung across her vision
in tangles that had once been orderly braids. Her bedsheets were twisted
about her legs as if she had been running in her sleep.

Then she remembered the dream. She had been running. Running from
black-cloaked shadowy figures with purple-splotched faces. Muddled
memories of stories her mother had told her as a child swirled through
her sleep-fogged brain. She had never seen those te@ng forms before, but
she knew what they were-witches from Dathomir who had drawn on the dark
side of the Force to work all manner of evil.

The Nightsisters.

But the last of the Nightsisters had been destroyed or disbanded long
before Tenel Ka had even been born. Why should she dream of them now?
The only Force-wielders left on Dathomir used the powers of the light
side.