Bounty hunting is a complicated profession

Concord Dawn

You looked at Din as he answered back the request from the ships surrounding you. He was tense and you didn't like that.

"This is Din Djarin, Fighting Corps. Member of The Tribe."

There was a pause that seemed to last forever before they answered back.

"You're granted passage. Follow us." The voice said before positioning themselves in front of you to show you the way through the asteroid field you were in. Even so, Din's posture hadn't relaxed one bit and you realised that he was probably as concerned as you at the idea of facing the other Mandalorians.

As you got closer to Concord Dawn, you were finally able to take a look at it. It was a devastating sight. The rock masses surrounding you, that you had assumed were part of an asteroid field, were in fact fragments of the planet. It looked as if about a third of its mass had blasted out in its planetary orbit.

"Many wars occurred here." Din explained to you in a solemn tone. "It was devastated during one of them. It's been inhabited since the Empire wiped out those who were left."

Careful not to hit any of the debris surrounding the planet, you moved toward it and finally landed. Before going out of the Crest though, Din approached you.

"It'll be fine, just stay close, and" he said as he pulled the necklace out of your shirt and placed it over it so it was easily visible "let them see that."

You nodded as you followed him to the cargo bay and out of the ship. As you were walking down the ramp you saw the Mandalorians that had escorted you there waiting outside for you to come out. They were fully armoured, to the point where it made you feel underdressed — even though you had purposely changed into your nicest clothes, the ones you got at Sorgan — and they were also quite tense, their hands resting on their blasters.

"Tion'cuy?" A deep low voice called out.

Then, a broad Mandalorian in a blue armour appeared in your field of vision. He looked familiar and it took you a moment to recognise him as the Mandalorian with a heavy blaster cannon that had helped you many cycles ago to escape Nevarro.

"Din Djarin. Su cuy'gar, vod!" As he greeted Din, the other Mandalorians automatically relaxed.

"Paz. Su'cuy, vod." Din replied.

Due to the similarity of the exchanged greetings, you thought it was highly likely that this Mandalorian's name was Paz but, since you didn't know the language, you considered it safer not to make any assumptions. Besides, you will most likely be introduced shortly and confirm your hunch.

But introductions did not take place as they continued talking in that language you didn't understand and that you assumed was the Mandalorian language. Although you had no way of knowing what they were saying, it looked like a polite conversation. After a few minutes, the other Mandalorian said something and gestured the two of you to follow him.

He led you to a big shack and, as soon as the door closed behind you, his polite façade fell and both his tone and demeanour changed drastically.

In three long steps he crossed the shack and positioned himself in front of a big table, then he turned around to face Din. He was clearly annoyed, slightly raising his voice while saying something that, to you, sounded like a reprimand.

Din answered back calmly but the taller man snorted and then said something in an extremely sarcastic tone — luckily for you, sarcasm seemed to be an international language. He kept raising his tone gradually as he waved his hand at you and called you "aruetii". Whatever that meant, it was clearly not a compliment as Din tensed up almost instantly. Still, he managed to control himself as he answered back in a low solemn tone.