CHAPTER 20

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Base Haven- Planet Arbra:

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Base Haven- Planet Arbra:

"Hey! Easy!"

Poe had just violently pushed the prisoner into the small room where Resistance officers were already waiting. His hands were shackled by handcuffs, and Chewie was no more gentle in forcing him to sit on one of the meeting table's chairs. The code breaker was in a bad position and he knew it very well.

"Listen, I understand that you are rather annoyed after what I did, b...b....but as I told your friend on the Supremacy, it was nothing personal, I was just trying to save my skin..."

"Because of you, hundreds of our people are dead!" the pilot spat.

"You sold us out to the First Order!" Larma d'Acy protested in turn. "Finn and Rose told us that you left Snoke's ship with a reward. A good package of credits, I bet!"

"Oh! So those two escaped in the end! Yes, well, to clear things up: the destroyer was literally sheared in half as I was about to leave, and my 'reward,' as you say, d...d...did not have time to be loaded in the hold. So in the end, I left the ship empty-handed."

"You scumbag..."

"Poe! Please!" Leia stopped him. "This man disgusts me as much as he does you, but he may have information that will be useful to us..."

Curled up like a poor frightened beast, the code breaker had raised his hands in front of his face as a shield. He could see that the pilot was ready to execute him right here, right now.

"Where did you find him, Lando?" the general asked, addressing her friend standing beside her.

"He was hanging out in a tavern on Aztar. He was drunk and shoved one of my men before dropping this."

Lando took a piece of paper, stamped with the emblem of the First Order, from one of his pockets.

"It's a pass to go to the Cyax system in the heart of Hutt space, signed personally by Hux."

"You were on Aztar? That hive of scum and villainy?"

"It's hard to change, Leia," Lando smiled. "Just like Han, I may have distanced myself from the Rebellion for a while now and gone back to my old ways, but I have always made a point of putting a spoke in the wheels of the First Order. I also kept in touch with Menkel Jas. It was he who told me what had happened to you on Crait and how you had been betrayed by a bastard wearing a Trammil amber ring."

"I knew that this thing was a little too c...c...conspicuous," the man mumbled into his beard, casting a disillusioned look at his left ring finger.

"This guy is an opportunist. He doesn't deserve to live after what he did! He's a supporter of the First Order and should be treated as such!" Chewie roared at the assembly in agreement with Dameron.

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