The Jewel Casket

The Jewel Casket
The Kitchen Maid
The Lady of Shalott
the night watch by rembrandt
With that the mighty door slid open—and immediately Han understood just whatthat "deal" must have involved. At the far end of the huge banquet table stood thebounty hunter Boba Fett. Fett stood next to a chair that held the black essence of evil itself—Darth Vader.Slowly the Dark Lord rose to his full, menacing two-meter height. Han shot his meanest look at Lando. "Sorry, friend," Lando said, sounding mildly apologetic. "I had no choice.They arrived right before you did." "I'm sorry, too," Han snapped. In that instant, he cleared his blaster from itsholster, aimed it directly at the figure in black, and began to pump laser bolts Vader'sway. But the man who may have been the fastest draw in the galaxy was not fastenough to surprise Vader. Before those bolts zipped halfway across the table, theDark Lord had lifted a gauntlet-protected hand and effortlessly deflected them so theyexploded against the wall in a harmless spray of flying white shards.