Synopsis:
Callista Ming, having recently joined the crew of a Gamorrean ship
known as the Zicreex under Captain Ugmush, arrives on Gamorr when
the ship sets down to allow Ugmush’s brother, Guth, to challenge
the warrior Vrokk for the hand of Guth’s beloved Kufbrug of the
Hold of Bolgoink. Shortly after the fight is to have taken place,
Guth arrives at the ship, chased by authorities. Vrokk has been
found murdered, and Guth is the prime suspect, and with him, the
rest of the Zicreex crew. Upon speaking with Kufbrug, her sister
Gundruk, and Vrokk’s brother, Rog, Callista is allowed to
investigate the murder. She visits various dealers and the writer of
a letter supposedly sent by the illiterate Guth to Vrokk. It turns
out that the person impersonating Guth in having the letter written
seems to have hidden some kind of murder weapon or poison under the
seal of the letter. Callista think she knows what it might be, so
she and Kufbrug stake out Vrokk’s “haunted” quarters, where he
died.
Callista’s suspicion are correct. Vrokk was killed by a creature
that had been hidden in the seal — a kheilwar, native to Af’El.
Callista and Kufbrug battle the shapeshifting creature, and as it
dies, it moves through all of its most recent forms to reveal that
it was Rog and Gundruk behind the murder. Kufbrug was near suicide,
and they believed the execution of Guth for murder would have pushed
her over the edge, allowing Rog to marry Gundruk and rule the Hold
of Bolgoink. This treachery revealed, Callista and the crew watch
happily as Guth and Kufbrug are finally married, as it should be.
Synopsis taken from Nathan
Butler's Star Wars Timeline Gold, http://www.starwarz.com/timeline.
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