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I will have to move quickly after that to make certain that he did not try to clone himself and thus live forever via Transfer Mind. I doubt he has; the fool always looked down on that technique for some truly quixotic reason. Still, best to make certain. And I can also remove myself from Coruscant for a time so I am not even around when Dooku attacks him. The timing for that will need to be both exact and seem random, lest Plagueis somehow discern what I have done. Not that he will; the fool trusts me.
Sidious let himself chuckle evilly as he pushed himself back upright in his chair, shaking his head wearily. A Sith who trusts others! Truly, teacher, you were ever a flawed creature. It is time to remove the imperfection from the Sith Order and thus bring the Great Plan closer to fruition.
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The next day the younger people returned to their daily lives of padawans and queen, meeting up with Master Fay and Lily back in the palace after Chewie and Malla had picked them up with the liner. Harry noticed that something had gone on between the two, but what it was he couldn't quite put his finger on. They seemed to be smiling at something when the quartet of youngsters returned to the capital city, so it must not be anything bad. Setting that to the side, Harry talked with a few of the technicians he had spoken to on Serenno and on the way here, while Aayla and the others talked with Padme and her two maids/friends, who had not joined them yesterday during Padme's day off.
"Then again, we're sensible. We have a day off every week!" Eirtae said tartly. She was slightly shorter than the other maids, with short-cropped blond hair and a tough, no nonsense attitude to her. Padme had mentioned once that she had been in the running for queen just like Padme, but they had become firm friends since. She was very good at organization and politics, but not so good with people or economics.
"Randomly, it must be said, and we normally just use it to go shopping or drop into bed unconscious for a few days," Sabe said, pushing Eirtae lightly in the shoulder.
"Well, at least on this trip you won't have to worry about her killing herself through overwork," Aayla laughed, winking at the two of them. Of the two girls, Eirtae was actually Aayla's age, whereas Sabe had just turned fifteen just like Padme.
By this time the Lucrehulk had been emptied of all the parts destined for Naboo, and hundreds of workers including dozens of Wookies were already working on emplacing the shield generator where the locals had begun work on a station. About half of the Wookies who had been transported to Naboo would be leaving with the Jedi and Padme's small group, taking command of the Lucrehulk that would be sent to Kashyyyk. That ship would remain there, and would probably be overhauled to an insane degree before beginning to ply the space ways between Kashyyyk and their colony world. The idea was to take the Jedi Order's new ship to Kashyyyk and then from there head back to Serenno, while Padme would bring back still more Wookie technicians to Naboo.
After saying goodbye to his acquaintances, Harry moved over to Chewbacca and his wife, eager to ask them questions about Kashyyyk which he hadn't been able to ask yesterday. That discussion drew in several of the other Wookie guards, those who were not on duty, anyway, and Master Fay and Lily, while the others continued to wait for the shuttle to be made ready. "It sounds fascinating," Lily said after a moment, with Harry providing the words for the Wookies. "Six whole different ecosystems! All set up like, like layers on a cake?"
That description had all of the Wookies howling in laughter, and Chewbacca replied through his guffaws, his voice coming from the translator device on his bandoleer and from Harry's Force-based translations. "Yes, perhaps the most poisonous cake in the universe! If you try to cut to the bottom of this cake, you'll die for certain. Very few Wookies have ever been to the planet's actual surface and lived to tell the tale."
"My mate is being far too humble," Malla interjected, chuckling and taking his hand in hers. She was a slightly smaller Wookie, with russet colored fur rather than brown like Chewbacca's, but it was only because of the number of beads she had in her hair and her slightly more dulcet tone of roar that Harry could tell the difference between a male and female Wookie anyway. "He has personally been to the Shadowlands and returned. It was a mark of great bravery," she said, gently touching the bandoleer Chewbacca wore across his chest.
Harry glanced at Chewbacca, then back at Malla before laughing. "Let me guess, it was for a girl? A certain, specific girl?"
Chewie chuffed with laughter, pushing Harry's shoulder playfully, or rather, playfully for a Wookie. Harry staggered backwards a step, but he was still grinning as the Wookie replied. "As if you wouldn't do anything different for that Twi'lek of yours!"
"True enough," Harry said with a laugh, turning as Padme, her two maids, and the other three padawans gestured them to the shuttles which would take them up to the Lucrehulks. Once in space the group split off, with the majority of the Wookies heading to one Lucrehulk, while Padme and the others joined Harry and company on theirs.
The living quarters on the Lucrehulk were just as large as the rest of the ship, redesigned over the past few months for a smaller crew, but with more space for each member of said crew. Each cabin was the size of the original captain's quarters. The group heading to Kashyyyk for the trade meeting had their own rooms, a small interconnected suite with one room entirely devoted to clothing and examples of trade goods. They needed it, because, as Padme said, "I will have to be dolled up in formal garb for my arrival there. Dammit."
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