The British Are Coming

The British Are Coming
leonardo da vinci self portrait
Madonna Litta
madonna with the yarnwinder painting
After impact, Luke struggled to pull himself from the cockpit and looked withhorror at the looming figure of the approaching walker. Gathering all his strength, Luke quickly squeezed himself from under the twistedmetal of the control board and moved up against the top of his cockpit. Somehow hemanaged to open the hatch halfway and climbed out of the ship. With eachelephantine step of the oncoming walker, the speeder shook violently. Luke had notrealized just how enormous these four-legged horrors were until, unprotected by theshelter of his craft, he saw one up close. Then he remembered Dack and returned to try to pull his friend's lifeless formfrom the wrecked speeder. But Luke had to give up. The body was too tightlywedged in the cockpit, and the walker was now almost upon him. Braving theflames, Luke reached into his speeder and grabbed the harpoon gun. He gazed at the advancing mechanical behemoth and suddenly had an idea. Hereached back inside the cockpit of the speeder and groped for a land mine attached tothe ship's interior. With a great effort he stretched his fingers and firmly grasped themine.