The Painter's Honeymoon

The Painter's Honeymoon
the night watch by rembrandt
the Night Watch
The Nut Gatherers
The sky was already noticeably darker, and with the encroaching darkness camethe colder winds. The Force was with Luke, but even that mysterious power couldnot warm him now. Every step he took as he stumbled out of the gorge was moredifficult than the last. Finally, his vision dimming as rapidly as the daylight, Lukestumbled down an embankment of snow and was unconscious before he even reachedthe bottom. In the subsurface main hangar dock, Chewie was getting the Millennium Falconready for takeoff. He looked up from his work to see a rather curious pair of figuresthat had just appeared from around a nearby corner to mingle with the usual Rebelactivity in the hangar. Neither of these figures was human, although one of them had a humanoid shapeand gave the impression of a man in knightly golden armor. His movement wereprecise, almost too precise to be human, as he clanked stiffly through the corridor.His companion required no manlike legs for locomotion, for he was doing quite wellrolling his shorter, barrellike body along on miniature wheels.