Hylas and the Nymphs

Hylas and the Nymphs
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Gustav Klimt Kiss painting
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Luke could have been a corpse, food for the scavengers, by the time the light ofdawn returned. But somehow he was still alive, though barely, and struggling to staythat way even with the night storms violently assaulting him. Luke painfully pulledhimself upright from the snow, only to be blasted back down by the freezing gale.As he fell he considered the irony of it all—a farm boy from Tatooine maturing tobattle the Death Star, now perishing alone in a frozen alien wasteland. It took all of Luke's remaining strength to drag himself a half meter beforefinally collapsing, sinking into the ever-deepening drifts. "I can't…" he said, thoughno one could hear his words. But someone, though still unseen, had heard. "You must." The words vibrated in Luke's mind. "Luke, look at me!" Luke could not ignore that command; the power of those softly spoken wordswas too great. With a great effort, Luke lifted his head and saw what he thought was ahallucination. In front of him, apparently unaffected by the cold and still clad onlyin the shabby robes he had worn in the hot desert of Tatooine, stood Ben Kenobi. Luke wanted to call out to him, but he was speechless.