27 Morn walked over and put his hand on his
friend's shoulder. "Are you sure you're up to it?" he asked.
28 North reached up and took the hand. "As long as you're there to back
me up," he said, "I can do anything, even come back from the edge of
death. I owe you another one, old friend! Sometimes you scare me.
Tell me something….why don't you have any wings over there?"
29 "Because I'm Hashon," Morn explained. "I won't have wings 'til this
body dies. Never had them before that."
30 "I'm a little confused," North admitted, "and still a little groggy,
but whatever you say."
31 North felt the bandages over his eyes. "Do I need these?" he asked.
32 "I don't think so," the Doctor answered. "I'll give you some dark
glasses, but stay out of the bright light."
33 North agreed. For the next month his vision got worse and worse.
While it was still good North spent most of his free time studying
every possible attack route into Haven. But they all had some problem.
They took five or six leaps with too much set up time between leaps.
34 The Imperial Forces just had too long to mass against him. He needed
a route with three leaps or less, and there just wasn't one. But if he
could reach Haven with a big enough force and knock out the Imperial
shipyard, he could just about destroy the enemy's capability of
producing ships fast enough to keep up with their losses. Slowly The
Republic would be able to gain an initiative, drive The Empire back, as
they began to out-produce them.
35 While visiting The Morning Star one afternoon North sat in the
recreation room just behind engineering