Star Wars: Clone Wars: The Cestus Deception by Steven Barnes

Author:Steven Barnes [Barnes, Steven]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 978-0-345-49270-8
Publisher: Ballantine Books
Published: 2011-10-04T13:00:00+00:00

Jangotat awakened from a dream of a rising sun, and once again felt a squishy, flat weight upon his chest, a resistence against inhalation. This time, his skin no longer felt tender. It was a rather gauzy feeling, if that made sense, as if he were filtering all sensation through some kind of thin filter.

But the weight was there. He moved his hand much more slowly this time, just a bare centimeter at a time.

Whatever lay on his chest pulsed more rapidly, but didn’t move. His fingertips probed at a solid but gelatinous mass. Cool, but not cold. It felt rather like a piece of rubbery fruit. He moved his hands in both directions. It was about half a meter long, and …

But that was all the strength he had. His hands dropped away, arm gone numb. He tried to call out, to ask someone to remove the thing from his chest, but some instinct told him that it was this thing that kept the pain from searing his mind. So he said nothing and settled back again. Beneath the sheltering bandages his eyes closed, and then relaxed. There was nothing he could do right now. That much was true. So he could heal. Would heal, if such capacity remained.

Jangotat remembered the cave debacle. He remembered watching their recruits scattering, mowed down by the killer droids, captured by the JKs, or fleeing from the cave to be slain by enemy blasters.

Xutoo had perished in orbit. All right. And men and women who had trusted him died in the caves. And that meant there was a debt to repay. And troopers knew how to repay debts. Yes, that was one thing they understood quite well.

In the darkness, Jangotat’s burned mouth twisted into a cold and lethal smile.

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