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When the Ethics class arrived in the Danger Shop, they stepped into an entirely different world.

An incredibly dry, hot one. That smelled really bad.

Anakin waved his hand around the room. "Welcome to the embodiment of gluttony," he said, "the palace of a Hutt."

He concentrated on the controls on the far side of the room, and the simulation sprung to life: dozens of beings drinking, eating, and dancing, with all activity centered around a vile slug of a beast laying on the raised dais at the front of the room.

In a place of honor on the wall was a man, face twisted in a silent scream but his features obscured beyond recognition, encased in silver. Anakin ignored it as he walked past to point at the creature on the dais. "That," he said, nose wrinkling in disgust, "is a Hutt. This particular version was named Jabba, one of the most powerful crime lords in the galaxy." A grim smile turned the corners of his mouth up. "At least until he met my children."

He shook his head. "That is neither here nor there. Today is an interactive experience for you, class. Take a good hard look around. See the effects that gluttony can have."

His eyes went flat. "Touch any of the dancing girls and you'll regret it. That's a promise."

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Ella remembered Tahiri had mentioned being from master Skywalker's world. "They sound creepy," she decided. "I can believe there are stories. What did Master Skywalker's children do to him?"

"Jawas aren't that creepy. They're actually kind of nice," Tahiri assured her. As for Jabba's fate, if she hadn't heard that story a thousand times . . .

She pointed toward the alcove off the main audience chamber, where the man frozen in carbonite was. In her habitual rapid speech ~~so as to avoid tl;dr~~, she rattled off an explanation of how Leia had gone undercover as a bounty hunter, and Luke had come to bargain with Jabba, to rescue Han Solo, and how the bargain had ended up a bust with Han and Luke to be fed to the Sarlacc and Leia -- Tahiri glossed over the whole chained-up slave girl part, a bit. It just felt weird, given she was Anakin and Jaina's mother, but an uneasy glance toward one of the dancing girls might have hinted at it.

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Ella listened, nodding along at parts, murmuring "oh, how awful" at others, and wondering what the glace to the slave girl hinted at.

At the end, though, she mostly looked sad. "I wonder why Master Skywalker would want to take the class here. It can't be good memories for him, even if things worked out all right in the end."

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"Well . . ." Tahiri shot a warning glare at a passing Quarren. "You really aren't going to get a better look at the end result of too much gluttony than by watching a Hutt. They're crime lords; it's what they do."

Ella sucked in her breath through her teeth. "Yes, I'm starting to see that."

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Tahiri's nose wrinkled slightly, and she gave Ella a somewhat wry smile. "Isn't Tatooine great?"

"I think I'll stick to Earth," Ella decided.

"That might be a good idea," Tahiri agreed. "Although if it was a choice between Earth and some of our other planets, maybe, it might be tougher."

Ella nodded, a little dubious. "So there are pretty places?" she asked. "It's not all ... this."

"There are," Tahiri said, a bit wistfully. "Or there were, anyway, before the war." Ithor, for one, had been breathtaking before the Yuuzhan Vong had released that biotoxin.

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