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

"Good," Mara said. "I'd like to keep it a secret a little longer, if we
can."
"No problem," Karrde assured her. "If and when we dig out information on
Jinzler, shall I send a courier to Nirauan to meet you?"
"Don't bother," Luke said. "Chances are we'll be heading straight back to
Coruscant within a couple of days anyway."
"And never mind Jinzler's history," Mara added. "You just concentrate on
tracking down the man himself. The last time secret information slipped
through our fingers, we nearly ended up with a civil war."
Karrde winced. "Yes; the Caamas Document," he said. "Don't worry, we'll
find him."
"Good," Luke said. "We'll talk to you when we get back to civilization."
"Right," Karrde said. "Good luck."
"And happy hunting to you," Luke said.
He touched the comm switch, and Karrde's face vanished. "Well, like you
said, the trip was starting to get routine," he commented.
Mara didn't answer. "I take it you're not happy about all this?" Luke
suggested as he punched for the nav computer.
"You mean about going to Nirauan?" Mara asked, her voice thick with
sarcasm. "Nirauan, where I single-handedly destroyed their whole docking bay
deck for them? I'm sure Parck's just dying to see me again."
"Oh, come on," Luke soothed. "I'm sure he's gotten over that by now.
Anyway, it's really Baron Fel you should be worried about. He was probably the
one in charge of the fighters you wrecked."
She turned a high-voltage glare on him. "You're just dripping with cheer
and good humor today, aren't you?"
"Somebody has to be," Luke said, giving her a totally innocent look.
Mara held the glare another moment. Then her face softened. "You're as
worried as I am, aren't you?" she asked quietly.
Luke sighed. "I can think of only one reason Parck would suddenly want to
talk to us," he admitted. "Probably the same reason that's already occurred to
you."
Mara nodded. "The unidentified enemy he told me was coming this
direction," she said. "The one that had both him and Fel seriously concerned."
"Unless they were lying about that," Luke suggested. "They were trying to
talk you into joining them, remember."
Mara turned to look out at the canopy. "No," she said. "No, they were
convinced. They might have been wrong, but they were sincerely wrong."
"You're probably right," Luke agreed. "I wish now we'd brought Artoo with
us. He came in pretty handy the last time we were there."
"We're not going down to the planet itself," Mara said firmly. "Besides,
I know Leia is a lot more comfortable having him aboard during this stage of
Jaina's flight training."
Behind Luke, the computer beeped completion of its task. "Here we go," he
said, feeding the course setting into the helm.
"It's almost funny, you know," Mara commented thoughtfully. "You actually
called it, not fifteen minutes ago. Remember?"
Luke grimaced. Especially since I made it clear to Leia at the start that
we weren't supposed to be disturbed unless it was a flat-out invasion. "The
Force is strong in my family," he murmured.