The Three Ages of Woman

The creature was chattering gaily as he led the way through the swamp."Heh…safe…heh…quite safe…yes, of course." Then, in his odd little way, thismysterious being started to laugh. Two Imperial cruisers slowly moved across the surface of the giant asteroid.The Millennium Falcon had to be hidden somewhere within—but where? As the ships skimmed the surface of the asteroid, they dropped bombs on itspockmarked terrain, trying to scare out the freighter. The shock waves from theexplosives violently shook the spheroid, but there was no sign of the Falcon. As itdrifted above the asteroid, one of the Imperial Star Destroyers cast an eclipsingshadow across the tunnel entrance. Yet the ship's scanners failed to not the curioushole in the bowllike wall. Within that hole, in a winding tunnel not detected by theminions of the powerful Empire, sat the freighter. It rattled and vibrated with everyexplosion that pounded the surface above.