Across the Universe | D. Djarin

The mudhorn

"Stripped. Not destroyed. The Jawas steal. They don't destroy." The ugnaught said.

Mandos left arm was shooting out electricity, his vambrace had been broken during his fall earlier. The electricity was running up his forearm in waves. The ugnaught handed him a tool to help fix it.

"Stolen or destroyed, makes no difference to me." Mando stated bitterly. I nodded in agreement, regardless of how you wanted to word it, their ship was still missing parts and unable to take off.

"They're protected by their crawling fortress. There's no way to recover the parts." Mando said

"You can trade." The ugnaught said

"With Jawas? Are you out of your mind?" Mando asked

"I will take you to them." The ugnaught said, taking back the tool that he had lent Mando since he had fixed his vambrace. "I have spoken."

The child made an odd cooing noise causing me to turn on my heels to face him. He had a frog hanging out of his mouth and he was trying to swallow it. My eyes widened at the sight of the legs hanging out of the infant's mouth.

"Hey! Spit that out." Mando stated firmly.

The child did not head to Mando's statement and swallowed the frog whole, Belching after he had swallowed it.

I shook my head at the child, that was disgusting.

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Mando and I sat side by side on a sled. We were being pulled by a blurrg that was being ridden by the ugnaught.

Night had fully fallen over the planet and rain had begun to pour from the sky, soaking us in water.

We had a small lantern attached to the sled as our only light source, which made it extremely difficult to see more than a foot ahead.

I shivered from the rain drenching my clothes, it was times like these that I envied my companions full armor and helmet. I pulled my coat tighter around my shoulders, trying my best to keep the rain out, but I was already soaked through. I don't think there was a single part of me that hadn't been soaked by the falling rain. Even my socks that were hidden under my black boots were feeling soggy, which was an awful feeling.

Thunder crackled in the sky above us, illuminating the dark sky in short flashes. I really hope that we will be there soon. Before the rain or the thunder kills us.

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After hours of traveling through the night, without any sleep at all, we made it to the Jawa ship. It was parked in a canyon between some mountains. They had their ramp down and a little stall set up for selling and trading to people.

The ugnaught greeted the Jawas as they approached them, I could hear them yelling in the distance. Probably because of my mandalorian companion. They were understandably untrusting of him.

The Jawas began to line up at the front of their stalls, aiming their blasters towards us.

"They really don't like you for some reason." The ugnaught said to Mando

"Well, I did disintegrate a few of them." Mando said

"That would upset anyone." I muttered lightly.

"You need to drop your rifle." The ugnaught said

"I'm a mandalorian. Weapons are part of my religion." Mando retaliated

"Then you are not getting your parts back." The ugnaught said. Gesturing to the on guard Jawas.

Mando sighed and lifted his rifle from his knee. "Fine." He placed it in the back of the sled.

I hopped out first and Mando jumped out after me. We stood in front of the Jawas as they continued to shout at us and aim their blasters. I Swallowed hard as I stared down the business end of several blasters. I wasn't keen on the idea of getting shot again.