Bounty hunting is a complicated profession

Waves

Since you were already feeling better, he agreed to teach you something. He started with the alphabet, that way you could always "spell a word if you don't know the sign", as he said. 

You spent the next few hours practicing the signs on your own. He didn't seem to be paying you any attention but he still corrected the form of your hands a few times.

When you thought you had it under control, you tapped him on his arm and asked him for more. Before that, he demanded you to show him first and to spell a few words after. He seemed to be convinced and decided to teach you some basic signs like "I", "you", "what", "where", "thanks", "how"...

Practicing those had you occupied for a few more hours, until you noticed the ship was descending into a planet's atmosphere.

You got up to take a better look and saw a planet whose surface was cerulean in colour and covered almost entirely by white clouds.

"Where?" You asked, proudly using your new learnt sign.

"Quell" he said, "I wasn't planning on leaving Nevarro so early, so we need to refuel and get some supplies. Since I can't go to Keyorin…"

"Why?"

He sighed.

"Keyorin is filled with retired smugglers and bounty hunters. There's always good deals, but I don't think we'll be welcome there"

You nodded in understanding and turned around again to look at the planet. It looked very pretty and its surface seemed to be mostly covered in water. As you got closer, you noticed some places where there were rests of debris scattered around.

As if he had noticed what you were looking at, Mando said "before the Empire, there was a battle in the upper atmosphere."

You landed in a patch of land surrounded by calm waters.

"Stay here" he said "I'll be quick."

You didn't argue with him, in fact, you preferred to stay in the ship. You had never been on a planet with so much water and it scared you — though you wouldn't easily admit it. You knew how to swim, but you were not very good at it, and the sea was treacherous…

As you tried to take your mind off thoughts of water, you started to think about how trustworthy of Mando to leave you alone in his ship. Meaning, what made him think you wouldn't take flight and leave him stranded there?

It was not like you were going to do so, but he didn't know that.

In the meantime, you decided to keep practicing the signs until you nailed them. Being able to communicate was something that you had missed for a long time and, even though you could only talk to Mando, at least you could talk to someone. 

He was back pretty fast. You heard the noise of heavy stuff being loaded in the docking bay, and he entered the cockpit a while later.

"We're good to go" he said as he sat in the pilot seat and started the ship.

"Where?" You asked him again. He had said something about finding a quiet planet, but you didn't know if he had somewhere specific in mind.

"Not sure" he said "somewhere quiet where you can hide. We'll have to search." and he jumped to hyperspace.

You started dozing off after a while. He had taught you a few more signs but the cockpit had been silent since. 

Still, it was a nice kind of silence, not the uncomfortable kind that sometimes seemed to loom over with some people. You guessed that he was probably used to it, always traveling alone.

Slowly, you started to fall asleep. Somehow, his presence relaxed you, it was like a calming balm, and you couldn't help to lower your defences around him.