Red Hat Girl

Red Hat Girl
Nude on the Beach
One Moment in Time
precious time
Artoo squealed again, but his sound were effectively frowned by the ear-splittingblast of the X-wing's retrorockets. Luke felt his stomach plunge as the ship began todrop rapidly. He braced against his pilot's seat, steeling himself for any possibleimpact. Then the ship lunged and Luke heard an awful sound as if the limbs of treeswere being snapped off by his speeding craft. When the X-wing finally screeched to a halt, it was with a tremendous jolt thatnearly flung its pilot through the cockpit window. Certain, at last, that he was on theground, Luke slumped back in his chair and sighed with relief. He then pulled aswitch that lifted his ship's canopy. When he raised his head outside the ship to gethis first look at the alien world, Luke Skywalker gasped. The X-wing was completely surrounded by mists, its bright landing lights notilluminating more than a few feet in front of it. Luke's eyes gradually began to growaccustomed to the gloom all around him so that he could just barely see the twistedtrunks and roots of grotesque-looking trees. He pulled himself out of the cockpit asArtoo detached his stout body from its cubbyhole plug. "Artoo," Luke said, "you stay put while I look around."