Don't Blame Me: Din Djarin

Chapter Fifteen: Dragon Hunting

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- 𝘗𝘩𝘺𝘴𝘪𝘤𝘢𝘭 𝘉𝘺 𝘋𝘶𝘢 𝘓𝘪𝘱𝘢 ___________________________________

" We're here."

The words were music to Alaina's ears. Looking over Din's shoulder, since they had rode a bantha together, she could see a large cave big enough for the monster she had seen yesterday. It was hallow from the looks of it and she gulped at the thought of unknowingly people entering the cave not knowing what was inside. Din got off the Bantha first landing on his feet before turning to Alaina, holding her waist as she slid down the side and stood next to him.

" How do we know that thing isn't going to come out of the cave and attack us?"

Din laughed," If it does, I have a jetpack and I'm fast on my feet."

Hearing his words, she smiled feeling some of the worry roll off her shoulders knowing if it came down to the dragon and them, he would be fast on his feet to help them. She turned grabbing the child from his little pouch and crotched down against a small little cliff with the other seeing a lone tusken raider taking a bantha to the front of the cave.

" They say it lives in there." Din related once the tusken raider had talked." They say it sleeps. It lives in an abandoned sarlacc pit."

Cobb shook his head unconvinced," Lived on Tatooine my whole life. There's no such thing as an abandoned sarlacc pit."

" There is if you eat the sarlacc." Din hinted.

Alaina didn't know what a sarlac pit was or even a sarlac for the matter, but seeing Cobb's face drop at Din suggestion made her know enough that the dragon was not going to be easy to take down. She swallowed her worry squinting her eyes at the lone tusken raider down below.

" What are they doing down there?"

" They're laying out a bantha to protect the settlement." Din explained handing her the binocs to see for herself." They've studied its digestion cycle for generations. They feed the dragon to make it sleep longer. Watch, the dragon will appear."

Taking the binocs from her eyes, she watched the tusken raider hammer the stake into the ground to keep the bantha in place before cupping its hands around its mouth. The tusken began shouting in its language, its voice echoing around the cave, but growls came right back at it. The ground shook under them and when the raider noticed, it took of running tripping multiple times, but it wasn't enough when the dragon came up from the sand swallowing them.

" Shit." Alaina gasped while the child quickly buried his face into her arms to be protected.

Din slowly looked over to them," They might be open to some fresh ideas."

" Open? Or in dire need of one?" She corrected causing Din to chuckle.

" Come on." He nudged moving from the small cliff and over to the Tusken raiders mapping out the terrain.

She stood quietly next to Din watching the Tuscan's speak to one another in their language gesturing to the bones and little marbles they made on the floor. She tried to keep up with them guessing what the hell they were communicating, but her guess was no better than anything she came up with.

" What are the bones?" Cobb asked taking the words right from her mouth.

" That's the krayt dragon."

He frowned again," And those little rocks?"

" That's us." Din answered.

" It's not to scale."