The Kitchen Maid

The Kitchen Maid
The Lady of Shalott
the night watch by rembrandt
the Night Watch
Lando turned to his copilot with a quick smile. "Don't worry, my friends aredown there, they'll have that shield down on time…" He turned back to hisinstruments, saying under his breath: "Or this will be the shortest offensive of alltime." "Gzhung Zhgodio," the copilot commented. "All right," Lando grunted. "Stand by, then." He patted the control panel forgood luck, even though his deepest belief was that a good gambler made his own luck.Still, that's what Han's job was this time, and Han had almost never let Lando down.Just once—and that was a long time ago, in a star system far, far away. This time was different. This time they were going to redefine luck, and call itLando. He smiled, and patted the panel one more time…just right. Up on the bridge of the Star Cruiser command ship, Ackbar paused, lookedaround at his generals: all was ready.