The Force Wills - Chapter 16 Snippets preview

The sense of relief that suffused me as I stood with bare feet on actual planetary soil was just… divine. For months I’d been cooped up on Resolute, first as work continued on her upgrades, then during fighter training, with no chance to be in a natural environment at all. Sure, this wasn’t Shili’s soil or even the Room of the Thousand Fountains in the Jedi Temple, but it was something at least.

“Feel better, Snips?” Anakin asked with an amused look on his face.

“Loads,” I said simply. Yes, I probably looked a bit ridiculous as I was otherwise still fully armored up, but I had two lifetimes worth of not liking restrictive footwear working against me here. Not to mention the Togrutan cultural practice of keeping barefoot whenever possible, due to the ancient belief of always keeping yourself connected to the land. When a child on Shili gets their first pair of shoes it is always a trial of endurance for parents.

“Good, now grab the scanner and get me those readings.”

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“Wraith One, scanners are picking up Hyena’s launching from the capital.”

The forward scopes lit up with a full squadron popping up like deadly jack-in-the-boxes from the capital, which was only forty-two kilometers away.

“Scan spike! Missile launch!”

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Finding Cham Syndulla was not a straightforward prospect. Even though the GAR did have radio contact with the twi’lek resistance to coordinate, frequencies and encryptions they only had thanks to the late Master Di, they were scattered and divided into operational cells. The resistance cell in the capital was not outright led by Syndulla. He had his own cell that moved all over the planet as needed.

The Lessu cell had managed to contact Syndulla though and provided a general place and time for a potential rendezvous to occur.

That it was in this war graveyard was a message not lost on Windu.

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A/N: Chapter is about finished. Just polish is left, will probably be publishing to Patreon tomorrow.