Star Wars: The Rise and Fall of Darth Vader

Star Wars: The Rise and Fall of Darth Vader — page 5
The laughter continued Luke said He can’t be alive Father help me Around Vader the fire began to burn inward moving moving closer toward his body Behind his helmet Vader tried to blot out the horrid laughter Why won’t you ever die But the laughter did not stop Vader attempted to reach for his own lightsaber but his arm suddenly felt like it was made of solid stone The flames were now licking at his cloak and boots The Emperor laughed louder Luke began to scream Vader squeezed his eyes shut He could smell fused circuits and roasting flesh WHY WON’T YOU EVER And then Vader awoke Darth Vader’s eyes snapped open Seated within his pressurized meditation chamber aboard his personal Super Star Destroyer the Executor his first waking thought was Jedi don’t have nightmares This thought surprised him almost as much as the intensity of the imagery of Bast Castle It had been over two decades since he had broken from the Jedi order to become a Sith Lord and in all those years he had not thought about whether Jedi had nightmares or dreams for that matter Not since the end of the Clone Wars Perhaps it was a premonition Vader thought as a vein pulsed against the left temple of his bare horribly scarred head He quickly rejected this notion He knew