’Tis not the time for jokes and parries, please!As I did sit there, suddenly a joltWent through me as I heard a sound uponThe window. Looking closer, I espiedA second beast outside that hard uponThe window fell. There’s something out there, Han—Beyond the ship, abiding in the cave.[A great sound is heard and the ship shakes.
CHEWBAC.Auugh!C-3PO—Listen!HAN—I shall venture out to see.LEIANay, art thou mad? It is not wise or safeTo go without when there are creatures weKnow nothing of.HAN—This bucket is just fix’d,Wouldst thou I let some thing tear it apart?LEIAI see thy reason, and shall go with thee.C-3POI shall with courage and with honor stayBehind to bravely guard the ship.[Another sound is heard.
O dear!
[Exit C-3PO as the others go outside the ship.
LEIAWhat is this ground that we do walk upon?’Tis strange—it doth not feel at all like rock.HANIndeed, with thine assessment I agree:It seems there is much moisture in this place.LEIAI have a feeling bad about this cave.What odd new situation find we here?Do not these signs and portents give thee fear?HANAye.[Han sees something move.
Take thou cover!
[He shoots.
’Tis all right.LEIA—What is’t?HAN’Tis what I did suspect: some mynocks. TheyAre fasten’d to the ship, a’chewing onThe power cables.LEIA—Mynocks? O what beasts!HANReturn inside, and we shall search for more.[Several mynocks fly by. Han shoots, and the cave walls shake.
But hold one moment, something seems awry,For blaster fire should not cause walls to shake.[Han shoots the cave wall, and the ground shakes mightily.
O, horror, for I now do understand:The cave doth quake whenever it is shot.But what knows rock of pain, or stone of hurt?Whenever did a cave feel anything?Impossible it is, unless this caveIs much more than a cave. [To Leia and Chewbacca:] Pray, go inside![They run into the Millennium Falcon.
With speed now, Chewie, let us fly away!LEIA[following Han to the cockpit:] The Empire is without, we should not go—
HANWe’ve no time to discuss this in committee.LEIAO, fie! Thou scoundrel, I am no committee
