FaCPoV 9

Desperate, I stretched out with the Force, trying to locate those grenades and divert their path at least a little bit, but I couldn’t find them or feel them. I felt Nakari’s presence, though, and the Aqualish running for cover, and also the last bounty hunter, a reptilian Trandoshan, crouching in the ferns close to the lagoon and taking in the scene. And I was able to sense all this just as the grenades boomed and shook the ground below us and a cry of pain, cut short, was accompanied by Artoo’s wail, and then there was a sharp, empty space in the Force where Nakari had been a moment earlier.
	It was a blow to the gut, realizing what that sudden absence meant. I hadn’t seen it happen with my eyes, but I had felt Nakari’s life snuffed out through the Force, and into that void where she had shone anger rushed in—anger, and a cold sense of raw power and invincibility. With clarity I had never felt before, I knew precisely where the Aqualish had moved and the Trandoshan, too. The latter had decided to go after the Aqualish before coming after us, thinking it best to eliminate the guy with the grenade launcher before tackling the people with the blasters.