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hadn't been supportive since his election.
"Thank you, Senator," she said. She took a deep breath. "The damage to
the Hall was extensive. The bomb, if we might call it that, was detonated
inside the Hall. There was no exterior damage at all. We are currently
investigating all personnel who were in the Hall at the time of the explosion
as well as people who had access to it in the days before." "Does that include
senators?" asked Senator Wwebyls, a tiny humanoid from Yn.
"It includes everyone," Leia said.
"Even the dead?" R'yet asked, his lower hands perched on his secondary
hips.
"Even the dead," Leia said softly. "We can't overlook anyone or anything
here." "So you're being investigated as well," Senator Meido asked.
Leia started. Of course she wasn't being investigated. She knew she
wasn't involved.
"She said everyone." ChoFi spoke without judgment as he reminded them to
listen, and as he got Leia off the hook.
Kerrithrarr, the senior Wookiee senator, growled from the back of the
room.
"My Wookiee colleague has a good point," ChoFi said. "The best way to
survive this crisis is to work together." "We can't work together when we're
being investigated," said another junior senator.
"We're all being investigated," said Nyxy, a senator from Rudrig.
"We have to work together," said Senator Gno. He had been a senator in
the Old Republic, and then a member of the Rebel ring in the Imperial Senate.
He was one of the few Old Republic members who hadn't retired. "Have you ever
thought that whoever set off that bomb did so for precisely this reason? If we
fight among ourselves, we no longer focus on outside threats. We cannot tear
this government apart from within." That thought hadn't occurred to Leia
either. She had been concentrating on finding the perpetrators, and on
discovering if they were the source of the Force-vision she had shared with
Luke. She hadn't forgotten that feeling of impending doom, not just for the
Senate, but for the government itself.
She couldn't tell this body, though, about the new weapon. Not without a
greater proof than her feeling, and Luke's.
"It seems to me that this government is already being torn apart," R'yet
said. "We need leadership. Good leadership would have prevented this attack."
"We don't know that," ChoFi said. "We won't know anything like that until we
discover what caused the destruction." "The teams are working on that now,"
Leia said. "We have some experts digging through material removed from the
building, as well as searchers still in the Hall. We'll know more by later
today." "Will we know then whether the attack was aimed at the Senate or aimed
at you?" R'yet asked.
He had the right to ask that. Leia knew he did. But that didn't stop the
flare of anger within her. She had had enough. He was acting as if he had
attained a moral high road through M'yet Luure's loss.
"Senator Coome," she said, rising to her full height. "If the attack was
aimed at you, at me, or at any of our colleagues, then it was aimed at all of
us. We are a body, a group, whether you like it or not. The attack occurred in
the seat of government, and affected all of us equally-" "Not equally," R'yet
said. "Some of us are dead." "Equally," Leia said, "at least for the