StarWars Shadows of the past (revising + adding)

Chapter 16

Orin walked onto the main bridge. Shonna was watching out the view port, when she walked in. "I told you that failure was not an option," she hissed. Her face did not leave the view port. She was controlling her anger.

"Mara is still alive," Orin answered changing the subject. "She was with Skywalker," she said hoping to divert Shonna's anger. She thought she had just signed her death warrant. But Shonna did nothing. Orin sat motionless. "Is there's something more?" Shonna asked. Orin watched her turn.

"She is very young."

"Young! She exclaimed peeking through the hood of her cloak.

"My guess she is a clone," she answered waiting for Shonna's reaction. What are your orders?" she asked changing the subject.

"We will deal with them later. We need to build the fleet. Captain, prepare the ship for dispatch," she snapped.

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Six hours later Luke awoke stiff and sore, but he remembered the dream he just had. It was about a ring he was supposed to give Ulonna, but he had never seen it before. "It would have to be made," he thought. As he sat there holding her, his mind wandered off on thinking of where something like that could be forged. But then a loud noise broke his concentration. It was coming from the cockpit. He shook Ulonna's shoulder and she awoke. She sat forward and realized the time. She stood up and then Luke jumped to his feet and headed for the cockpit. When he got there, Leia was on the line.

"What's going on?" Ulonna whispered as she entered the cockpit.

"We'll be there in a few hours, is there a problem?" Luke asked Leia over the COM.

"No, but you should have arrived here hours ago. We were becoming concerned,"

"Everything is fine Leia," he assured her. "We had a little run in with the peace brigade, but we're okay." He said. Ulonna sat down in the chair next to him and stared at him.

"Do you need any help?" Leia offered.

"No, but thanks any way."

The conversation ended and Ulonna was still staring at him. "What?" he finally asked.

"That's not how it happened."

"No, but they don't know that," he said with a smirk on his face. Ulonna said nothing, but she was still staring at him. "I needed an excuse, I didn't lie. It did happen just not in that order."

"Right."

"What?"

"Thank goodness this thing has a fast hyper drive," she said.

"You're right, we better get going," he breathed.

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Orin sat in her quarters. It was early morning and Shonna had called her to the main throne room of the ship. Shonna had heard from her spies that the one they thought was Mara's clone was indeed Ulonna. She knew that Zenoben Arts would explain her being young. It was the reason their father took their mother so many years ago. Now she could have that knowledge. She had made a certain plan to strike fear in her sister's heart. By letting Ulonna know that she knew that she was alive. Better yet that she could strike at any moment. The spies that she had sent would and could send a letter through to Ulonna. Orin walked through the blast doors before entering the doors of the main throne room. She felt that this mission would strike that fear. When she entered the throne room she kneeled before Shonna. Her chair swiveled around to face Orin.