Across the Universe | D. Djarin

The mandalorian

I nodded to him. "I'm okay."

Mando nodded his head in return and turned away from me. He strode past and headed towards a table where a Mythrol man sat. A man who just happened to be our bounty.

He was sitting at a round table and was laughing at the scene that Mando had just caused. "Thank you! Thank you very much! You have my heartfelt gratitude."

Mando didn't say anything in reply, making the man uncomfortable by his stare. "You know what? Here. You take my credits. Buy yourself a drink." He started to talk again.

I held in a laugh at the man's weak attempt to Bargain. The amount of times a bounty has tried to get out of trouble by offering Mando a drink. When he is wearing a Beskar Mandalorian helmet? Do they have no sense?

Mando then silently placed the bounty puck on the man's table. He turned it on and it immediately showed a blue holographic image of the man.

"Oh. Is that a bounty puck?" He tried to ask Mando, but he didn't respond. He was trying to feign innocents.

"Is that me?" He sighed heavily. " look...uh, there must be a mistake. I can get you more credits." The man kept trying his luck, hoping to be let go.

Mando finally spoke. "I can bring you in warm...or I can bring you in cold."

I smiled subtly to myself. I had heard that line many, many times in my time as a bounty hunter. No one ever said it like Mando did.

The man glanced up at Mando with a worried look in his eyes and held his hands up in surrender. "Warm, warm would be good."' He said quickly. I almost laughed at his response, but I felt like it would be too harsh of me.

Mando walked over and pulled out a pair of handcuffs, latching them onto the man's wrists before hauling him up on his feet.

Mando turnered and gave me a slight nod before he began to drag the man out of the cantina. He stepped over the man who had been cut at the waist and stepped out into the snow again.

I started to follow after him, I didn't want to be left behind in this place. I tried to hide my discomfort as I carefully stepped over the man's body. I wanted to avert my eyes from the scene, but I also didn't want to accidentally stand on anything.

A shiver ran across my whole body as I stepped back out into the cold. The small
Amount of warmth that I had gotten from the cantina had done nothing for my numb hands and feet. I really couldn't wait to be back on the crest again.

Mando was walking in front of the bounty, leading the way and keeping a few feet away from him. I had done this enough times to know that he was relying on me to take the rear and watch his back. My hand hovered near my blaster as I followed Mando and the bounty.

At the end of the path was a man sitting on a box. He stood up and greeted Mando.

"I need passage to the yards." Mando said.

The man spoke in Kubazian and then played his flute like instrument which summoned a landspeeder to their position. It was being driven by a droid. I held in my sigh as the Astromech pulled up, Mando did not Trust droids whatsoever. And I didn't blame him.

"No droids." Mando said.

The man started to try and assure Mando that the vehicle was great and there was nothing wrong with it when Mando tossed over a couple of credits.

The man looked down at his hand and then nodded, playing his musical instrument to summon another speeder.

The speeder that was being driven by the Droid left and was replaced by an older, out of date model being driven by a man. The engine of the vehicle was spluttering and it didn't look to be in good condition. But Mando grabbed the bounty by his shoulders and dragged him over to the speeder, forcing him to get in.