"Time to fix that," says Plourr, and it only takes a moment's digging among the bedsheets to find a deck of cards.

The games go on for some time. Plourr is a good, if impatient, teacher, and Makita a quick study. Rial gets called in and promptly sucked into the game when the need for a third player arises, and before long, the room is ringing with laughter and cheerful arguing and accusations of cheating.

Gror the mustachioed bantha solemnly watches all, his new oversized fur hat nearly sliding over his black bead eyes.