" Disguised, the pair departed the city""s gate, and met up with Arpid, who had also escaped (riding on Mathayus"" camel).The tale unfolds therefore, in a flashback old like a black comedy and murder mystery that both embellish the unusual ""love"" story with occasional reappearances throughout the narrative of the protagonist""s alter-ego.Johnnie - who is frozen in place on the sofa, is asked about his intentions.He obligingly rises, bumbles around the room, and readies himself to also leave o enlist for the Confederate South.And some day the revolution will come and we can overthrow our Great Leader." Miles"" first inclination, however, was to go back to sleep: "If I don""t get at least 600 years, I""m grouchy all day" - and he appeared emotionally unstable."On board the Empire""s Death Star, a gigantic Imperial space fortress, officers in a large conference room argued about the power of the rebels to threaten them (especially since the Rebels possessed a "complete technical read-out" of the station), as commander Grand Moff Tarkin (Peter Cushing), a skeletal, vicious-looking, power-mad tyrant, and Darth Vader entered the room.