“We Don’t Serve Their Kind Here” - From a Certain Point of View

"We Don't Serve Their Kind Here", by Chuck Wendig‏, comes from the perspective of Wuher. This story runs concurrently with events in the previous cantina stories and follows "Not For Nothing."

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WARNING: This is a plot summary of the short story, spoilers ahead:

Wuher wakes up every morning and faces the miserable grind of tending bar at a dive like Chalmun's. The patrons are major scum, and if anything goes wrong at the bar, it usually results in him having to clean up a body. So Wuher works hard to make sure there's plenty of booze and music, otherwise, he has to here everyone complain, and that's he worst of all. Except for droids. Wuher hates droids.

Wuher is snapped out of his daily funk when that old hermit and some kid walk in with 2 droids. The old man stopped in on occasion, was always courteous, and spoke in some kind of genteel way, like from another time. He always paid for clean water. But that blasted droid detector wasn't working, so he yelled at the kid to leave the droids outside. Ever since Wuher's life was turned inside out, when he was a kid on Arkax Station during the Clone War, an attack by soulless droids left his parents dead, and young Wuher fleeing for his life. Droids had no soul, and could be programmed to murder. He wanted nothing to do with them.

After Evazan and Ponda Baba picked a fight, Wuher hid behind the bar, but saw the blue flash and vrooom sound of the lightsaber. It came rushing back to him. The droids blasting and murdering everyone they saw on Arkax Station, but through the smoke, the sharp blue and green lights from a pair of sabers, cutting down the droids and saving Wuher. He peered over the bar, and the old hermit was no longer just an old hermit. He thought they were gone from the universe, but there was a Jedi in his bar.

Shortly thereafter, Imperial troopers entered to investigate. Wuher looked in the direction of where the old Jedi had just been, but he and the boy had slipped away already. Wuher knew they had been talking to Solo and his Wookiee companion, but he just pointed aimlessly at some empty tables.

Later, after his shift, Wuher wondered if the appearance of the Jedi was a signal for him to change the course of his miserable life.

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