The apprentice was beginning to realize that he was wasting his time. "See any Jedi around lately?"

"What? Are you kidding? They were all killed years ago. Hey..." The stormtrooper glanced down at the apprentice's lightsaber as though seeing it for the first time. "Isn't that a-?"

The apprentice put him to sleep with a single thought and stepped over the stormtrooper's crumbling body. Before the pair's opposite numbers on the far side of the trench could notice, he hurried on his way, thinking through the few possibilities open to him.

Chapter 38