Ducem Mortis | The Mandalorian

XXXII

It's been two weeks. Two weeks since my life went from being an assassin to being a Naboo citizen. It has been different not see a green child run in my peripheral vision. That and seeing a tin man from time to time. I missed them, both of them. I could only imagine the amount of training that Grogu has done. I just hope that when I see him again he'd remember me.

My hand laid on the stone pillars as I looked over the lake of Naboo. Naboo always had some of the most beautiful scenery. The meadows, the waterfalls, the moons. Just everything about it was wonderful. I must say I have gotten use to wearing a dress by now. In the beginning I was against it but quickly I found out that they were a lot less restricting than I thought. The current dress I was wearing was a halter top dress that flowed down to the floor. The color was a deep burgundy at the top but as it travel down to the floor it became white. My hair was in loose curls styled by my maids.

Today was the day of my mother's funeral.

Due to the quickness that her body was received they were able to use high technology to preserve it until the time was right. People were coming from all over the galaxy for her funeral. My mother was a lot more popular than I thought. Then again she was Padmé's right hand when she became queen. Most of the people who knew my mother knew her before I was born. They probably don't even know that my mother had an heir.

"Excuse me Astraea," I heard a voice say causing me to take a moment away from my thoughts and towards the voice. It was the one and only Theadora. The older woman had her head bowed before she rose it up at look it me, "You have a visitor." I nodded my head knowing that it was Lawrence. He was had made arrangements to pick up a few things when I first came to Naboo. Speaking of that the people didn't find the same humor I did when I showed up in a TIE fighter. They had gotten the army ready just for little old me to pop out the ship.

I started to walk forward only for Theadora to stop me, "You know the rules." I rolled my eyes as I looked down at the woman as she was slightly shorter than me. "It's just Lawrence." I said trying to get around her again only for her to stop me. "Lawrence or not. Anytime you are around people of the public eye you have to wear-,"

"My crown." I finished for her as I looked down. She brought one of her hands from behind her back showing me the crown as it shined even in the shade. "It was Queen Amidala's first crown. After this one she decided to go with less visible crowns." I smiled lightly before shaking my head, "Hmmm, I wonder why."

Theadora nodded for me to go down a bit so she could place the crown on top of my head. I waited as the woman straighten the crown so it was sitting perfectly on top to her likely. "Beautiful." She said causing me to nod, "It is."

"No, you Astraea." I looked up at the woman before stepping back. "Thank you." Theadora smiled and nodded before turning around and leading the way. I followed behind her as I looked out. People and being were filling the halls as they walked to where they had to go. I could feel the eyes of many beings as walked past. A few of them would bow their heads to show respect but others would just stare. Most of them had never seen me a day in their life and here I was walking around the palace wearing a crown like I was royalty.

You are royalty.

I ignored Obsidian's voice and instead thought of how I was going to beat up Lawrence for not finding me and instead making we walk across the entire planet with a crown on.

You're being a little dramatic there.

Yeah yeah whatever. I could hear some maids as we got closer. Probably asking Lawrence if he wanted anything upon his arrival. I looked at the ground as we got closer. There was a few stairs we had in travel up before me made it to the top. The last thing I wanted to do was fall on my face in front of Lawrence when I really wanted to throw him in a volcano. Preferably an active one.