Star Wars: The Last Jedi: Junior Novel

Star Wars: The Last Jedi: Junior Novel — page 5
He also had dreams On evenings after he'd finished his chores he would go out and watch the binary sunset The twin suns would descend below the dunes one blazing white hot the other orange red Cast in the amber light the boy would wonder wonder about himself who he was where he would go what he would become He dreamed of getting off his dull and dusty homeworld and training to be a pilot so he could sail through the depths of space so he could see the stars He dreamed of being like his father What little the boy knew of his father he had learned from his uncle in snatches and grumbles Supposedly his father had been a navigator on a spice freighter yet something something tragic had happened His uncle had never elaborated insisting the boy quit daydreaming and accept life on the homestead There was no shame in being a moisture farmer No shame at all Years passed and this boy was now an old man He stood on a cliff overlooking a great sea He wore sackcloth robes under a woolen cloak A hood protected his face from the wind The water before him stretched to the horizon like the dune seas of his home broken only by mountainous islands He had come to this forgotten world to retire in solitude All his dreams he had fulfilled long before He had flown the depths of space seen the stars and all the light and dark between He had nothing more to give and desired nothing in return He just wanted to be left alone in peace But after many years he had been found