Solivagant-The Mandalorian

7

" restless "

Lana and Mando are back at the hangar. The droids or the woman are nowhere to be found. Lana walks up into the ship to check on the child where he was left. Mando soon found himself behind her peeking into the compartment.

Lana froze when she realized the child was missing. Mando sprinted out of the ship, she does a double take around the ship trying to search for the missing child.

"Hey!" Mando growls. "Where is he?"

Lana ran down the ramp to be beside Mando. He quickly glances at her before the mechanic walks out with the cooing child.

Lana lets out a sigh of relief when she sees the little green child wiggling in the woman's arms.

"You woke it up! Do you have any idea how long it took me to get it to sleep?" she complains to the two.

"Give him to me." Lana hadn't heard Mando speak so stern before, she sort of liked it how protective he was of the child.

"Not so fast!" Peli protests.

"You two should know not to leave a child all alone like that." She takes turns glancing at the two of them. "You know, you two have an awful lot to learn about raising a young one."

Mando is silent while starring at the baby in Pelis arms.

"Uh, we know, we do. We're new to this whole parenting thing. You're completely right." She agrees with the woman, in attempt at calming down the two of them.

Mando's feelings get confused.

Did she call us it's parents?

She hands the little bundle to Lana. "Thank you." She holds the child so he can face Mando as Peli continues.

"There you go. I had a couple setbacks I want to talk to you about." She starts banging on the machine in front her.

"I didn't use any droids as requested, so it took me a lot longer than I expected." Lana stays at listens to the mechanic as Mando retrieves a pack from the ship.

"But I figured the two of you were good on money since you have an extra mouth to feed." She gestures to the child.

Mando finds his place next Lana again, "Thank you."

She quickly hands the child over to Peli again, then tries to catch up to Mando who is making his way out the door.

Peli follows the pair. "Oh, I guess I was right you got a job, didn't you?"

Lana doesn't respond, neither does Mando as they walk through the door to meet Toro.

"You know it's costing me a lot of money to keeps these droids even powered up." Peli complained behind them.

Lana felt her face drop when she saw Toro leaning back on one of the bikes. Lana saw his wink to her, she hid behind Mando as he started putting his stuff on the back of the speeder.

"Enough of that." Mando grunts to Toro. Like a little puppy Toro obeyed and took his eyes off Lana.

"Right, right so what do you think? Not too shabby huh?" His tone changed into more nervous since Mando told him off.

Mando ignored him while examining the bike in front of him. He gripped the metal bars which seemed like they had been through hell and back. Mando tilted his helmet to the side looking the old thing.

"What'd you expect? This ain't Corellia." Toro took a final glance at Peli and the child before hopping onto his bike.

Mando looked down at Lana for a moment. "You don't have to go if you're not comfortable. This guy's kind of a prick and this could be dangerous, I don't want to push you."

Lana lit up at his words. She knew he wanted the best for her, especially out on her first couple of days after leaving her home.

"I can handle myself. I want to go."

He turns back to the bike and gestures with his head to hop on. She does so, struggling to keep her balance. Between her legs, Mando gets in front of her.

Mando felt her legs hesitantly wrap around his own, her ankles wrapped around his.

Mando glances back, "Hold on."

She gently wrapped her arms around his waist, thinking it would be enough to keep her from falling off. She was wrong about that one.

As soon as the bikes took off, she felt her body fly back. She quickly regains her grasp on Mando. Sand shot into her face as they road, she kept her face digging into Mando's back. She tried opening her eyes to see just a little bit of the landscape, but each time she did she was plagued with sand in her eyes. She hated the sand.

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Later she was finally given break from the grasp she had on Mando. She stretched her arms above her head with a groan, gaining a look back from Mando.

"What's going on?" Toro questions.

"Look. Up ahead."

Far off into the distance, Lana spotted two Banthas. Mando got off his bike and leaned against Lana's leg. He gave her knee a soft couple of taps before looking toward Toro again. "Those are Banthas." She whispers for only for Mando to hear. She had read about them in books but never saw one in real life.

"Tusken Raiders. I heard the locals talking about this filth." Toro speaks before Mando can respond to Lana.

"Tuskens think they're the locals. Everyone else is just trespassing." Mando follows.

"Raiders?" Lana whispers again to Mando.

"I promise, they won't bring us harm."

Lana watched as two tuskens started walking closer toward Toro.

"Whatever they call themselves, they best keep their distance." Toro pushes his chest out.

Lana scoffs at his cocky comments. "Yeah? Why don't you tell them yourself?"

Lana can't help but conceal her laugh as she watches Toro jump away from the raiders. Lana and Mando walk toward Toro and the raiders. "Relax."

Mando starts gesturing to the Tusken raiders with his hands communicating with them.

"What are you doing?" Toro asks.

What do you think he's doing?

"Negotiating." Mando continues.

"What's going on?" Toro asks anxiously.

"We need passage across their land." Mando responds.

The raiders began replying. Lana had never seen Tusken raiders before, she only read about the Banthas when she was younger.

"Let me see the binocs." Mando says more of a demand than a question.

"Why?" Toro protests.

"Just give them to him " Lana states.

Mando takes them from Toro's grasp and tosses them to the raiders.

Toro begins protesting to Mando about his binocs.

"Those were brand new!" he exclaims.

"Yeah? They were. Let's go."

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This is a super short but I've started writing the next couple of chapters and I really like them so bear with me.