Rewriting Star Wars: Chapter 41

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Chapter 41

“I have a destination for you, Captain Shaw.” Lenore spouted with a formality that seemed instantly insulting to him. “If you would be so kind as to set sail for Aedom Isle. I have contacts there with the forces necessary to launch a counteroffensive against that Fortress. They will have the money you’re owed for rescuing me.”

“Princess,” Shaw said with a nod before turning and preparing to set sail. Wendy would have to sleep a little longer, so they’d have to sail the traditional way. “Jim, lend me a hand?” It sounded like a question, but was more of a polite command.

Jim hesitated for a moment, then left to help Shaw. Lucy smiled weakly at him before he departed; that smile did not go unnoticed by Lenore.

“He’s a good kid.” Lenore confided in Lucy. “I may never forgive myself for what I put him through. I miss the sound of his voice. Were I him, I would hate me.”

“He doesn’t hate you. Everything he’s done, he’s done for you.” Lucy pleaded, hoping Lenore would understand.

Lenore favored Lucy with a small, understanding grin. The enormity of the world around them weighed heavily on Lenore’s shoulders, and it showed in her eyes.

Then she changed the subject.

“Why wasn’t Master Go the one to come rescue me? Where was he?”

“I’m not sure. He said he had to find something. It all happened so fast… Cecil went with him.”

“We should talk to Cecil.” She decided.

“Someone wants to talk to me? It has been a long time since anyone’s said that.” Cecil whispered.

Lucy blushed slightly for her less than kind attitude towards Cecil, but remembered what he did to garner that attitude and the embarrassment vanished as quickly as it appeared.

“Yes, Cecil. I need you to tell me everything that happened between you and Master Go.”

Cecil relayed in superfluous detail the events that transpired from his own point of view. He paraphrased the words of Go describing the Red Stone they found in the bowels of the Fortress. Then he let slip the detail that he recognized Lady Evelyn before she began her fight with Go. He tried to continue his story with how he met up with Shaw and Wendy to rescue the girls from the prison cell, but the cat was out of the bag.

“You know Lady Evelyn?” Lenore wasn’t really asking.

“Oh… did I say that? I- I must have misspoke…” Cecil scrambled to cover his faux pas, but the glares the girls gave him forced him to accept the truth of his situation. He was caught and there was no getting out of it.

He began his story slowly. “I my service to the Lady Evelyn began long ago. She was different then. She was human. She was kind.” Cecil felt physically ill as he expounded upon his experiences. “There was always this sadness behind her smile. Something ate away at her from the inside. I never knew what it was. She was loved, adored, but nevertheless, she was lonely.

“Then, one day, something inside of her changed. Her sadness vanished, but her smile disappeared with it. In it’s place was an insatiable cruelty. I watched as she would torture my friends and fellow servants… for fun. She wasn’t angry with them, she didn’t hate them… She was practicing; perfecting the art of inflicting suffering on others. Their lives stopped having any meaning to her.

“One day, she seemed to experience a flash of remorse. My number was up, but rather than put a long, painful end to me, she banished me, and sold me into slavery. Whatever caused her to feel that moment of compassion, I owe my life to it.”

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