"Survivors Quest (Timothy Zahn)" - читать интересную книгу автора (Zahn Timothy)

under the fortress their old adversary Grand Admiral Thrawn had set up on the
planet Nirauan. At the time Luke had thought it was nothing more than a
temporary melding of their minds created by the heat and pressure of a life-
and-death situation. It was only afterward, when the battle was over but the
bond remained, that he'd realized it had become a permanent part of their
lives.
Even then, he hadn't completely understood it. He'd assumed that it had
sprung forth complete; that in those few hours it had brought the two of them
into as deep an understanding of each other as it was possible to have. But in
the three years since then, he'd come to realize that he had just barely
scratched the surface. Mara was far more complex a human being than he'd ever
suspected. As, in fact, he himself was.
Which meant that, Jedi or not, Force-bond or not, there was going to be
more for them to learn about each other for a long time to come. In all
likelihood, a lifetime's worth of time. He was very much looking forward to
the journey.
And yet, at the same time, he couldn't help but feel a small twinge of
uncertainty. His marriage to Mara felt right to him, in every respect... but
hovering in the background behind all their happiness and success was the
distant echo of Yoda's stories of the old Jedi Order during Luke's training on
Dagobah.
Specifically, the part about Jedi keeping themselves out of precisely
this kind of love relationship.
He hadn't given those teachings much weight at the time. The Empire was
in control of the known galaxy, Darth Vader was breathing down the Rebel
Alliance's collective neck, and all his thoughts were focused on his own
survival and the survival of his friends. When Han and Leia had gotten
married, Leia having Force skills hadn't seemed like a big deal. She was
certainly strong in the Force, but she hadn't progressed nearly far enough in
her training to call herself a Jedi.
But it was different with Luke. He had been a Jedi when he'd asked Mara
to marry him. True, their chances of survival at the time had been somewhat
uncertain, but that hadn't affected the sincerity of his proposal or the depth
of his feelings toward her. And despite these occasional twinges, he'd
certainly found peace in his decision and in their subsequent marriage.
Could Yoda have been wrong about how Jedi relationships were supposed to
work? That was the easiest answer. But that would mean the entire Jedi Order
had been wrong about it. That didn't seem likely, unless on some level all of
them had lost the ability to hear the Force clearly.
Could that particular dictum have ended with the fall of that particular
group, then? Yoda had also said something about the Force having been brought
back into balance, though he'd been somewhat vague about the details. Could
this have rendered that part of the Jedi Code no longer applicable?
He didn't have the answers. He wondered if he ever would.
"Okay, they're on us," Mara announced, leaning back in her seat. "Got an
antenna swiveling for a tight beam. I've been wondering how far away a Star
Destroyer's sensors could pick us up."
Luke forced his thoughts back to the situation at hand. "Though with the
Errant Venture you always have to allow for malfunctions," he reminded her.
"True," she agreed. "Sometimes I think of that ship as one massive red