For a moment Luke studied her face. Even in the fading light he could see the ache in her eyes; the bitter memories of the luxuriant life and glittering future that had been snatched away from her at Endor. But alongside the ache was an equally strong determination. However badly this might hurt, she truly did want to hear it. “The Emperor was trying to turn me to the dark side,” he told her, long-buried memories of his own surging painfully back again. It had nearly been him, not the Emperor, who’d died that day. “He almost succeeded. I’d taken one swing at him, and wound up fighting with
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