What makes you such an expert on alien life?” Scarlet asked after a few minutes. “I’ve been all over the galaxy. Seen a lot of stuff,” Han said. “Plus, I have common sense.
You’re too old for fairy tales,” Baasen said.
What about you?” Scarlet asked. “You have to enjoy the fear, too. Just a little?” “Not the fear,” Han said. “I just like being a little smarter than the next guy.” “That’s all it is?” “That, and I really hate paying taxes.
Everyone’s got history,” Baasen said amiably. “Man still has to work, whatever’s in his past, eh?
Well,” Han said with a sigh, “we’ve gone from no-plan to stupid-plan. That’s progress of a sort.
But always there was the voice at the back of his head telling him that by joining the Rebellion he’d become less of a rebel than he’d ever been. Flying off to assault yet another impossibly well-defended Imperial stronghold. It was getting to be...
