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The Force Retaken Chapter 2: Guest

The moons were in low in the sky when Rauda and Belto shambled into the bar. 

One of Rauda's horns was broken, his jacket torn in places and smoking in others. He was limping badly, his knee twisted at an odd angle, and he was nursing an arm that didn't sit properly. Face grim twisted with determination, an occasional whimper slipped past a bloody lip, yet still he held himself with terrible dignity. 

The younger and less experienced Belto did not have that same inner ...

The Force Retaken Chapter 1: Four Crashes and a Name

"I hear there's a new farmer up at the old Skywalker Ranch," Belto Llel said, fumbling into a seat in the shaded catina. His wide duros eyes always took time to adjust to the dark from the twin Tatooine suns, and it left him vulnerable. "Boss wants us to go and check it out."

"What? No.” Rauda Vid, his partner, spat. A stocky zabrak, his crown of horns gave him a hint of regality that the rest of him dispelled. The power of his presence promised pain, his age hinting at hard-fought in...