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two skinny meters of redheaded obstructiveness, would not yield a centimeter. The man, who had given his name as Tarth Vames,

dilapidated

quarry,

abreast

glowered

accoutrements

menace recognized chiefly

Battle of Uroro Station.

“Hey, she’s already behind the curve,” Han said. “At eight, I was stealing my first starship.”

mollified,

unabated.

Batag Needle Ship

expensive eletrotex jumpsuit:

lumbering

“Dyon Stadd.

xenopology

snorted.

Sha’natrac Tsu, nicknamed Tribeless Sha.

Carrack

“Yliri Consta.

“Sarita Consta, the holodrama star.”

glowered

ebb away

His sense of duty, instilled in him by his father and every facet of the Chiss society in which he’d grown to adulthood, was with him always, but it was sometimes so devoid of a sense of accomplishment, of any sense of reward, that he felt hollow.

wallowing

accordioned

Kthira’shi’ktarloo. Ashik was a Chiss

Lieutenant Oln Pressig,

Drikl Lecersen.

dilapidated

muster

bleak.

exasperation;

immaculate,

genetic predisposition.

General Merratt Jaxton, Chief of Starfighter Command,

coming to his feet, off- balance and face- to- face with one of the Witches,

redhead who perhaps looked angrier than any woman Han had seen, Leia excluded.

hazarded

gait,

jarring

impart.

Haydnat Treen, Senator from Kuat.

rends

swoon.”

Fost Bramsin was the Senator from Coruscant

“The last war was a disaster.” Bramsin paused, considering his words. “A disaster that would never have happened in an orderly society. The new government is also a disaster. Imposing ever- tightening controls as Palpatine did in his last years. Enacting reflexive, poorly thought- out laws. It must stop.”

“What is a mistake, Admiral?” There was a touch of rich, self- aware humor in Niathal’s gravelly voice. “It is a decision in which one or more of the factors is known to be dangerous, or poisonous, or compromising, but which we calculate will not keep us from achieving our goals. But when there is no foreknowledge of such factor in evidence, can it be called a mistake? If you walk out on an empty field and the ground suddenly gives way beneath you, and there was no way to predict it, was any part of your decision making a mistake? No.”

Kaminne Sihn. I am head of the Raining Leaves Clan.”

Olianne, our war- leader.”

“Halliava Vurse, chief trainer of scouts, and Firen Nuln, trainer of rancors.”

jockeying

“Tasander Dest.”

Elyas Caran,

Allana had met very small children who thought that way, and she wondered how Han managed to win at so many things when he thought like a small child. She wasn’t sure it would work for her.

admonishing

MONARG’S MECHANIC WORKS.

Nek Bwua’tu, Chief of Naval Operations for the Galactic Alliance, a gray- furred Bothan,

lupine

Jaden Korr, a live hypercomm transmission, was in the process of addressing the assembly. Korr, a man of Coruscant and onetime apprentice of Kyle Katarn,

venerates

Sothais Saar, the man who came forward at Hamner’s summons, was a Chev—

miasma

tree tubers

tart clusterfruit leaves, all seasoned by Ben to spicy Corellian standards.

“Kodashi viper.”

burly,

grating

suffusing

scorn

“Drola,

perfunctory

engender

hitherto

irreconcilable.

innocuous

Captain Brays

edifice.

Shul Vaal

Tyria Sarkin Tainer

wail

debilitate

wail

thrashed,

incredulity

Surreptitiously

inebriated

emaciation,

A gout of flame rose from

gantry

meticulous

festooned

glowered

acquiesced

unobtrusive

vanity

callousness

Plaza of the Founders

velvety

‘Tialga Hath Fallen,’ a traditional Alderaanian

unobtrusively

Mardek Mool. A Bith

glinted

Heavily armed and armored, Alephs were well suited to picket duty,

retinue

clemency

hapless

excoriated

“So, if this is a conspiracy, it was set up a long time ago for an eventual goal, not for the specific goal of hindering or ruining you in particular.”

Wynssa Starflare.”“Who?”“Before your time, child. A holodrama actress. Beautiful, perky, blond, shiny

irredeemably

conspicuous wealth

inset

gilt flecks

Chambers instead of sabacc. He held the Red Courtesan, Blue Destroyer Droid, and Red Imperial Guardsman.

“Actually, I established costume nights years before ever hosting a meeting here, but with an eye toward this sort of gathering.”

amenable

“If so-and-so fought so-and-so, who would win?” A card tossed out by a player was presumed to meet with the card to its left in a private chamber, with the stronger card winning the presumed combat. But complicating the comparisons were choices of categories—Strength, Will, and Chance—and card colors, with blue trumping white, red trumping blue, and black trumping red. So Lecersen was in a superior position to Treen.

“Stand fast

Red Courtesan,

ostensibly

caromed

crude hide armor

impetus

harried

Lightning, Force lightning, erupted from the two spell-weavers. It crackled toward him, lethal amounts of energy. He caught both bolts on his lightsaber blade. At such times, the weapon

what about what he learned at the monksnplace in book 1?

inadvertent

harry

surly

handbreadths

presentiment

Kani Asari, a golden-haired apprentice

enrapt

recourse

façades

surreptitious

dissuaded

insolent

insubordinate

conspicuous

Kester Tolann.”“Any relation to Commander Wister Tolann of the Imperial Navy

Sate Pestage and Ysanne Isard

enraptured

gubernatorial

entreaty

adore

heralding

preconceptions

raked

Dresdema was her name, and the clan she had once belonged to was long gone, hunted unto extermination by enemies of the Nightsisters

preternaturally

energy blades cleaved the ancient tribal weapons into useless junk

dilapidated

Jauntily

Lord Viun Gaalan

cleaved

forfeited

abdicate

congenial

enmities

comradely

bridle