aay (IME. OFFIC | Featuring an original Mara Jade story by Timothy ZahnSee au ee Sos eeeIPAS VEY Adventure Journal + May 1908 JADE SOLITAIRE By Timothy Zahn Illustrations by Matt Busch “Excuse me, folks—1'm looking for Talon Karrde.” Mara Jade looked up from the engine monitor, peripherally aware that, on the other side of the board, Chin was doing the same. The voice coming from the direction of the Wild Karrde’s bridge door was completely unfamiliar to her. As, she discovered, was the face that came with the voice. “Captain Karrde isn’t here at the moment,” Mara told the stranger, eyeing him narrowly. Just because they were in a familiar docking bay in a familiar port was no reason why strangers should be wandering loose around the ship. “How did you get in here?” The man waved vaguely behind him, “Oh, Dankin was back at the hatchway, and he let me in. Karrde and I are old friends—he and I 2