“Thank me by not wrecking your ship next time.”
“What, and make the Council wonder if they still need people like you?” Samakro asked blandly.
“I’d love to see the Council try their hand at this job,” the foreman said.
“Then we’d better get moving,” she said.
A small smile tweaked Thrawn’s lips; an equally small grimace tweaked Samakro’s. “I mean—” Thalias said, cringing to herself as she belatedly realized she’d just given orders to her commander and his first officer.
- Greater Good
But this was Admiral Ar’alani. It would be useless to lie to her. “Yes, ma’am, I did.”
“How would you have done it?”
Eli looked straight back into her eyes. The glowing red eyes of a Chiss…the viewports into the heart and soul of a Chiss warrior.
- Treason
The fact was that no one really knew what had happened to him.
Faro had asked Thrawn about it at the time. The grand admiral’s response had been polite enough, but Faro had left the conversation with the clear understanding that she was never to ask that question again.
-Treason