Be Still My Heart: The Bartender's Tale

"Be Still My Heart: The Bartender's Tale" is a short story in the Star Wars multimedia franchise. It was written by David Bischoff and appeared in the anthology novel Tales from the Mos Eisley Cantina, published by Bantam Spectra in August, 1995.

Synopsis
Wuher is the grisly human bartender who works as Chalmun's Cantina in the Mos Eisley space port on the planet Tatooine. As much as he loves his job, he also nurses a deep hatred for droids and forbids them from entering the establishment during his shift. In terms of his career, Wuher harbors a strong desire to devise a cocktail that would be pleasing to the all-powerful gangster, Jabba the Hutt.

In an alley, Wuher meets a strange droid named C2-R4, who begs him for aid from a troupe of greedy Jawa traders. Wuher curses the droid and all his kind, then marches off in a fury.

While working the day shift at Chalmun's, the young neophyte Rodian bounty hunter, Greedo, is shot and killed by the smuggler, Han Solo. Wuher has an enhanced sense of smell, and decides that Greedo would be the perfect ingredient for his special drink. He remembers that the droid he saw earlier was equipped with a special grinder, and races off to find him. When he does, he tells the droid to come with him. He feeds Greedo's corpse to the droid, and adds it to his drink. Jabba loves it, and Wuher has a new-found sense of appreciation for droids.

Appearances

 * Wuher


 * Greedo
 * Han Solo
 * C2-R4


 * Jabba the Hutt undefined


 * C-3PO
 * Chewbacca
 * Cornelius Evazan
 * Davin Felth
 * Kabe
 * Luke Skywalker
 * Obi-Wan Kenobi
 * R2-D2


 * First Galactic Empire
 * Imperial Stormtroopers


 * Aqualish
 * Chadra-Fan
 * Devaronians
 * Humans
 * Jawas
 * Rodians
 * Wookiees


 * Tatooine
 * Mos Eisley
 * Chalmun's Cantina


 * Blaster
 * DL-44 heavy blaster pistol


 * Landspeeder
 * Robots
 * Droids
 * Astromech droid
 * Protocol droid


 * Bartender
 * Bounty hunter
 * Crime boss
 * Smuggler
 * Stormtrooper


 * Laser weapons

Notes & Trivia

 * A more comprehensive account of Greedo's encounter with Han Solo is chronicled in the short story, "A Hunter's Fate: Greedo's Tale", also published in Star Wars: Tales from the Mos Eisley Cantina