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- Doctor Aphra
- DRAMATIS PERSONAE
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DARTH VADER:
Silence.
APHRA:
Lord Vader, I—
DARTH VADER:
This would not be a good time to bait me, Aphra.
APHRA:
I know. I have a message from the other bounty hunter. Boba Fett. He caught up with…with that boy you’re so interested in. He wants to report.
DARTH VADER:
I will see him.
APHRA:
Good, he’s standing by, waiting to board. He’ll meet you in your, uh…
throne room? Control center? Place on the ship where really cool stuff happens? Whatever you call it…
APHRA (narration):
As Vader left for his meeting with Fett, I gazed out into the vast starscape, those endless pinpricks of light against velvety darkness. I felt the hum of the ship in my bones, that secret language speaking to me. I settled in and smiled to myself, thinking of all the delicious information I’d already been able to gather.
Where would we go next?
I had no idea.
Excitement skittered up my spine.
And I thought: This is the greatest job of my life.
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INT. APHRA’S FAMILY HOME. SECOND MOON OF THRINITTIK. NIGHT. FLASHBACK.
APHRA (narration):
What charming locales was my new job about to take me to? I kept picturing a jaunt through the breathtaking clouds of Yama’chen. An underwater excursion to the bluest lakes of Naboo.
I know you’re probably scoffing at me wishing for my death-defying capers to take place in picturesque locales.
“What do you really want, Chelli?” you might say. “An adventure or a vacation?”
First of all, I don’t believe in making such choices. Why not both?
Second, can you blame me for wanting an aesthetically pleasing excursion?
A lot of my “almost died” life experiences happened on the most desolate, barren, flat-out boring planets. If I’m already dying, at least give me something nice to look at.
The very first time I almost died was on the most backwater of burgs: Arbiflux, a forest world in the outer Outer Rim, which is where my mother took me after she and my dad split up when I was just a kid.
Or perhaps more accurately: after she decided she could no longer live with my father’s obsessive quest for Jedi artifacts and his need to achieve greatness—even if it put us in harm’s way.
I can still hear them arguing, me creeping up to the edge of my dad’s workshop when I was supposed to be asleep in my bed…
KORIN APHRA:
It’s only a three-day trip, Lona! We won’t even leave the system, I just need some records from the university library on the fifth moon—
LONA APHRA:
I understand that part, Korin—well, I mostly understand it, even though there are perfectly good libraries here. I thought that’s why we moved to the University Quarter—
KORIN APHRA: