Her shoulders twitched, and shook, and Mace for a moment thought she might be sobbing, but then her soft dry chuckle reached his ears.

“I have missed you, Mace.” Her eyes sparkled with tears. “I can’t tell you how I’ve missed you. Of course you knew exactly the spot where my defenses would crumble. But I’m not your real problem,” she said tiredly. “What are you going to do about Kar?”

“You’re my only problem,” Mace told her. “I found your shatterpoint; do you think I’d miss his?”

“I think he doesn’t have one.”

“That,” said Mace Windu, “remains to be seen.”

“You and your shatterpoints.” Her sad smile was dazzling on her tear-stained face. “Who but Mace Windu would think to take himself hostage?”

Mace’s head twitched to the right in a Korun shrug. “I was the only one available.”


- Shatterpoint, Chapter 11