The Nut Gatherers

The Nut Gatherers
The Painter's Honeymoon
the polish rider
The Sacrifice of Abraham painting
heard unsettling noises, squishing sounds, that echoes through the dripping cavern. It was too dark to tell where the creature might be hiding. They movedcautiously, peering as well as they could into the deep gloom. Suddenly Chewbacca,who could see better in the dark than either his captain or the princess, emitted amuffled bark and pointed toward the thing that moved along the Falcon's hull. A shapeless leathery mass scurried over the top of the ship, apparently startled bythe Wookiee's yelp. Han leveled his blaster at the creature and blasted the thing witha laser bolt. The black shape screeched, stumbled, then fell off the spaceship,landing with a thud at the princess's feet. She leaned over to get a better look at the black mass. "Looks like some kindof Mynock," she told Han and Chewbacca. Han glanced quickly around the dark tunnel. "There will be more of them," hepredicted. "They always travel in groups. And there's nothing they like better thanto attach themselves to ships. Just what we need right now!"