Star Wars Legacy of the Force Bloodlines
Chapter One
Chief of State's reception suite, Senate Building, Coruscant, ten days after the
raid on Centerpoint Station.
The worst thing about being thirteen years old was that one moment you were
expected to be an adult, and the next everyone treated you like a child again.
Ben Skywalker - thirteen and confused about what was expected of him - sat
trying to be patient in the reception of Chief Cal Omas's offices in the Senate
building, taking his lead from his cousin Jacen Solo. It was the kind of office
designed to make you feel like you didn't matter: a whole apartment could have
slipped into the space between the outer doors and the wall of Omas's personal
office. Ben almost expected to see tangled balls of misura vine rolling across
the spotless pale blue carpet, driven by a distant wind. He couldn't see the
point of all that empty space.
But the Senate building had been occupied and changed out of all recognition by
the Yuuzhan Vong, Jacen said. Architects, designers and an army of construction
droids had taken years to wipe away all traces of the Yuuzhan Vong invasion and
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