"Michael Stackpole "The Bacta War"" - читать интересную книгу автораevery second Karrde's people were late allowed the image of a Thyferran
taskforce appearing to pounce on them grow in his mind. It wouldn't have been so bad, but Corran had not come alone. Gavin, Rhysati, and Inyri flew X-wings to give him a complete flight, and Mirax had come along in the Pulsar Skate. None of them knew how dangerous their mission might be-and Corran granted that the odds of their ending up dead on this mission probably were no greater than they were on any other-but he still would have felt better if he could have told them what was really going on. Of course, that would mean I'd have to know what was going on. A light flashed on his communications console. He punched the button beneath it. "Nine here." "Skate here, Nine." Mirax's voice sounded good to him and immediately began to take the edge off his frustration. "So, as long as we're waiting, you want to tell me what you said to my father?" Corran frowned. "How do you know about that?" "Well, I could say that you talk in your sleep, but you don't." The light tone in her voice conveyed the image of her smiling face to him. "When we headed out, my father shot me a private message. Normally he says I should make sure you take good care of me. This time he said I should keep my eye on you and follow your lead. Bit of a difference there." "Yeah, just a bit." "So?" "We had a talk." "Are you going to tell me what was said, or am I going to convince Emtrey he needs to spend more time around you?" moment, then sighed. "Your father and I had it out. He said I'd abandoned you on Thyferra . . ." "What?!" ". . . and I accused him of having abandoned you when he went to Kessel." "What?! You really told him that?" "Yeah, then I told him that you were everything he wanted to be and that the last person he should want inter-ested in his daughter was someone who held himself to the same level of morality and responsibility he did." "And you still have your arms and legs intact?" "Your father isn't exactly a Wookiee, Mirax." Corran forced a laugh. "Besides, it was about that point when Wedge intervened." "Ah, that explains why you're both still alive." "Right. Wedge pointed out that since you love the both of us, we've got a lot more in common than we do in conflict. He said, in essence, that we should grow up and start acting like adults." Mirax laughed lightly. "I bet that went over well with my father." "He listened, and the two of us were prepared to get back into it, but I let things bounce around inside my head and I realized I was disliking your father for the wrong rea-sons. Somewhere inside I figured it was my duty to my father to continue his rivalry with your father, then I realized my father hadn't let it get personal. He might have hunted your father with a bit more gusto because your father didn't make it easy, but he didn't hate Booster. By allowing myself to do so, though, I was really going against everything my father had tried to teach me." |
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