A Long Time Ago, In a Galaxy Far Away

Chapter 17

Luna walked into the warm book store and made a beeline for the Star Wars section, leaving Anakin, Obi-Wan, and Padmé behind. By the time they made it to where she had stopped, Luna had a pile of books in her arms, ranging from comic books to full on novels.

"I'm guessing this is the Star Wars section?" Anakin asked.

"Yep, that," Luna said, pointing at a line of characters that were on every book on the shelf, "says Star Wars. You want to make sure that's what's on the book you want to look at, or it'll be a different series.... Darth Vader comic! Yes!" Luna grabbed another comic book and added it to the pile in her arms, this one with a masked armored man on the front of it. Anakin raised an eyebrow.

"And he is?"

"Uh...." Luna said, freezing. "No one of importance," she tried to lie. It didn't even come close to convincing.

"Your lying," Anakin said.

"You don't need to know," Luna replied before moving to a table and sitting down the books on it, the three following her. Luna quickly sorted through the books, comics in one pile, novels in another pile, and then visual dictionaries in a third. From there she selected books from all three piles and put them in a fourth. Anakin noticed this was the pile the Darth Vader comic went in. "Okay, so these three," she gesture to the three piles that remained unmixed, "are the ones you are allowed to look at. I've read all of them, so I could summarize parts of them if you want me to."

"And what's the other pile for?" Padmé asked.

"Me. There books I haven't read and want to read," Luna said, measuring the pile with her eyes. "I have to narrow that pile down to two or three books...."

"Why don't you read one or two of them while we're looking?" Anakin asked.

"Because you all won't get any information otherwise. If I was here by myself, then I might...."

They stayed in the book store the rest of the afternoon, through which they managed to learn that Maul went into hiding after a failed, and by this Anakin ment majorly failed, attempt to kill Sidious, but nothing else was really revealed to Anakin's disappointment besides the fact Maul was probably going to be alive well into the future. Could the Sith never managed to whip each other out? If Maul got Sidious or Dooku, or one of them got Maul, it would have been nice. Only good part about it was that they had learnt something. Most of the books Luna had selected were ones that had stories about things that had already happened. Anakin supposed that he shouldn't have been too surprised, Luna was probably going to try and keep as much of the future as was possible a secret from them.

As for Luna, despite her saying she wasn't going to read, she had probably read through all of the comic books that she hadn't read before and skimmed through several visual dictionaries. She had also managed to whittle down her pile of possible candidates to buy to five books, all of which were novels.

As for now, she was figuring out how much she wanted to read what each was about before deciding on which ones to buy. Anakin also had a suspicion that she was comparing prices.

"I think we're done here," Obi-Wan finally said, putting down the comic book of a mission he and Anakin had gone on. Luna noded.

"Right, let me just eliminate these last ones...." Luna replied, her tone reluctant.

"What are they about?" Anakin asked.

"That one," she said, pointing to a black book with what looked like silhouettes of droids, "has chapters from all different characters. This one," she continued pointing to a second that was white and had an illustration of a starship on it, "is about the aftermath of the Battle of Endor. There's an entire series, but I have yet to read one of the books, so if I start it, then I'll get hooked and have to buy the rest of the series eventually, but it looks really good. That one," pointing to another, black, grey, and red with pictures of unrecognizable people of the front, "is about what lead up to The Force Awakens which I really should have at least read by now, and it looks real interesting. This," pointed to a white book with an illustration of a woman on it, "is about how things get to where they are in The Force Awakens too, but I'm honestly a bit scared to read it. And lastly, this one," she said, pointing to the last book. It was black with an unrecognizable symbol on it, "is Legends, but considering a good section of it is protocol, it's probably fairly accurate, and I've already go the bounty hunter, Jedi, and Sith versions."

"You do realize we don't know what happened at the Battle of Endor or what The Force Awakens is, right?"

"Real important battle and one of the newest Star Wars movies. Beginning of the third trilogy, that's all you really need to know...." Luna said. She moved the two white books to the side and practically glared at the remaining three.

"Well, you've chosen three. We can check out now," Anakin said, ready to get out of the book store. He was not one to spend his afternoon in the temple archives, let alone in an old fashioned book store. Anakin was honestly surprised he had managed to last as long as he had.

"No, I want to buy From a Certain Point of View, and it's too expensive to buy with two other books...." Luna sighed as she grabbed the book with the grey, red, and black illustrations and put it with the other books that needed to be returned to the selves before picking up the pile. "I'll be back in a sec."