Dascha laughed. “What, you?” He looked her up and down. “I don’t think so.” He sighted along the length of his blaster and squeezed the trigger.

All at once, Avar was leaping. The hilt of her lightsaber slid from its holster, and she palmed it, igniting the blade with an air-rending vrooosh. The blade sang as it whipped in an arc, striking the blaster bolt and sending it wide, where it rebounded from a metal hull plate and struck one of the storage crates below.

“Jedi!” screamed Dascha.

“I gathered!” replied Niquita, testily.

The two Nihil let loose with a flurry of blaster shots. Avar whirled her lightsaber back and forth, deflecting each shot as it came, careful not to send any of them back toward her attackers. It would have been easy to kill the two Nihil. Too easy.


Star Wars The High Republic The Eye of Darkness Chapter 14