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Star Wars


A Forest Apart

by Troy Denning


Chapter 1

Across the skylane from Chewbacca's quarters rose Sasal Center, its
forty spires ringing an open-air mezzanine as large as the Well of the Dead
back on Kashyyyk. Beside the center stood Wauth Complex, more massive than
Korrokrrayyo Mountain itself. On the other side loomed the mirrsteel
needles of Ooe'b Towers, as tall as wroshyr trees and webbed together by a
tangle of pedestrian bridges that always reminded Chewbacca of the mazes
down in the Shadow Forest. It would have been wrong to say that he enjoyed
living here on Coruscant, but hehad come to think of it as home-perhaps
even to see the shape and mystery of the forest in its soaring lines and
durasteel depths.

At Chewbacca's side, his life-mate, Mallatobuck, was staring down
through the transparisteel, mesmerized by the great rivers of traffic
flowing along the skylanes below.

[Is this what they do for fun on Coruscant? ] she asked. Her blue eyes
and honey-colored fur were as beautiful as the day Chewbacca had pledged
himself to her. [Circle the world in airspeeders? ]

[Oh no, ] Chewbacca joked. [I ordered the traffic for your visit. ]

[Be careful. You know I believe whatever you say. ] Mallatobuck spoke
without looking away from the window. [Still, I think traffic is the one
thing I will miss. It is like the Cascade of Rrynorrorun. Endless. Calming.
]

[Endless, yes-but calming? ] Chewbacca shook his head. [You have never
tried to make a three-lane climb, Malla. ]

[I have not, ] she agreed, [because I thought you valued the lives of
your mate and child. ]

[I do. Youknow I would never let you drive. ]

[Let me? ] Malla rowled. She regarded him with mock anger. [With such
talk, you're lucky to be the father of my child. ]

[Very lucky. ]

Chewbacca grinned and pulled her to his side. Malla had waited fifty