The Dangerous Rescue

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Obi-Wan Kenobi heard the door slide shut behind him. The locking system clicked and whirred.

He stopped short as a wave of helplessness overwhelmed him.

“No,” he said.

His companion, Astri Oddo, turned. “What is it?”

Obi-Wan faced the closed door with despair. “I can’t leave him.”

“But he ordered you to go.”

Placing his hands against the door, Obi-Wan shook his head. “I can’t.”

Astri waited a moment. She did not move, but he felt her impatience.

Her newly shaved head gleamed in the faint gray light. A heavy mist fell like rain and gathered in droplets on their skin.

“Obi-Wan, we don’t have time,” she said. “I have to get to the Temple.”

Obi-Wan nodded, but still he could not move. Astri’s father, Didi Oddo, was dying at the Jedi Temple. Astri carried the antitoxin that would save him. Astri had been a chef at her father’s café, and she had bravely joined Obi-Wan in his bold plan to break into Jenna Zan Arbor’s secret lab.

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