星球大战第十章(2)
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"It’s a wonder you’re still alive," she shot back smoothly. A quick look down the corridor and she had started determinedly off in the other direction. Solo looked at Luke, started to say something, then hesitated and simply shook his head slowly. "No reward is worth this. I don’t know if there’s enough credit in the universe to pay for putting up with her…Hey, slow down!" Leia had started around a bend in the corridor, and they ran swiftly to catch up with her. The half dozen troops milling around the entrance to the power trench were more interested in discussing the peculiar disturbance in the detention block than in paying attention to their present boring duty. So engrossed were they in speculation as to the cause of the trouble that they failed to notice the fey wraith behind them. It moved from shadow to shadow like a night-stalking ferret, freezing when one of the troopers seemed to turn slightly in its direction, moving on again as if walking on air. Several minutes later one of the troopers frowned inside his armor, turning to where he thought he had sensed a movement near the opening to the main passageway. There was nothing but an undefinable something, which the ghost-like Kenobi had left behind. Acutely uncomfortable yet understandably unwilling to confess to hallucinations, the trooper turned back to the more prosaic conversation of his fellows. Someone finally discovered the two unconscious guards tied in the service lockers on board the captured freighter. Both men remained comatose despite all efforts to revive them. |
