Head of Christ

Head of Christ
Hylas and the Nymphs
jesus christ on the cross
klimt painting the kiss
The trooper who had been unlucky enough to find her fell first, his head a massof melted bone and metal. The same fate met the second armored from coming upfast behind him. Then a bright green energy pole touched the woman's side and sheslumped instantly to the deck, the pistol still locked in her small palm. Metal-encased shapes clustered around her. One whose arm bore the insigniaof a lower officer knelt and turned her over. He studied the paralyzed form with apracticed eye. "She'll be all right," he finally declared, looking up his subordinates. "Reportto Lord Vader." Threepio stared, mesmerized, out the small view-port set in the front of the tinyescape pod as the hot yellow eye of Tatooine began to swallow them up.Somewhere behind them, he knew, the crippled fighter and the Imperial cruiser werereceding to imperceptibility. That was fine with him. If they landed near a civilized city, he would seekelegant employment in a halcyon atmosphere, something more befitting his status andtraining. These past months had gifted him with entirely too much excitement andunpredictability for a mere machine.