Synopsis:
In a seedy bar in Mos Taike on Tatooine, a drunk Mon Calamari boasts
of having seen one of the infamous krayt dragons. The bar crowd
ignores him - all except for Imperial bioengineer Dusque Mistflier
and her Ithorian partner Tendau. Well, them and a pair of greedy
Zabraks. The Zabraks take the Mon Calamarian out into the desert,
with Dusque and Tendau trailing them from a distance. Up ahead, the
Zabraks and Calamarian are ambushed by a group of Sand People.
Thinking fast, Dusque sneaks out to the tethered banthas near the
Tuskens and sets them loose. The Tuskens panic as the banthas
stampede away and give pursuit. The three fortune hunters continue
east, followed by Dusque and Tendau. A thousand meters later, the
hunters realize they're being trailed and corner their pursuers.
With night and a sandstorm coming, the Zabraks decide to tie the two
Imperial workers down and let the sandstorm have them. Dusque
manages to free her bonds and helps Tendau out as well. When the
storm passes, the girl's ready to go back to Mos Taike. Tendau,
however, sees no point in leaving now that they're so close.
The two finally reach what the Calamarian spoke of: A krayt
graveyard. They spot the three fortune hunters, on the run from
three angry dragons. With the dragons drawn off, Dusque and Tendau
sneak down into the ravine of skeletons and find "pearls"
- stones swallowed by the dragons and polished in their digestive
system for years. But for those two, the precious "pearls"
pale in significance next to a real prize - a krayt dragon egg!
Worthless to the bar patrons back at Mos Taike, but priceless to
Dusque…
Synopsis taken from Christopher
G. McElroy's Time Tales, www.theforce.net/timetales.
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