Bounty hunting is a complicated profession

Foolproof

After a few minutes walking, you arrived at the Marshal's office where Cara was already waiting for you at the door.

"Someone's had a goodnight sleep!" She exclaimed when she saw you.

"Yes. That was the most comfortable bed I've ever been in." You answered back, a big smile on your face.

"Oh! So she got the bed!" She said to Din, grinning wide as she patted him on the shoulder. "What a gentleman! I'm sure you look well rested too."

She turned around, entering the building, and you followed her. Inside was Greef, who waved at you, and a creature of a blue fish-like species who was sitting at a desk, working. The moment he laid eyes on Din his expression became terrified as he expelled some kind of steam through the gills in his neck.

"I believe you two have met." Greef said, addressing Din and the blue guy.

"I'm surprised to see you here." Din said, resting his hands on his belt buckle as he took a slightly menacing pose and looked down at him. You smiled at his irresistible pose but the blue creature shook nervously.

"Right back at ya."

"Mythrol here's taken care of my books since he was a pollywog. But then he disappeared one day after a bit of 'creative accounting'." Greef explained.

"Magistrate Karga was generous enough to let me work off my debt. Thank you, by the way."

"Well, if he runs off on you again, let me know." Din told Greef while keeping the menacing posture and his gaze fixed on Mythrol.

"Hi." Mythrol then said as he noticed you. "We haven't been introdu–"

"She's with me." Din cut him off mid-sentence, clearly amused that this guy was still so terrified of him.

"Oh my. Erm… so… how did you end up with this guy?" Mythrol asked you in a whisper. "You don't strike me as a bounty hunter."

"I'm not. I'm actually his bounty." You said, emphasising the 'his' and biting down a smile as you felt Din's chest swell with pride.

"He put you in carbonite too? I still can’t see outta my left eye."

"Nah. He only does that with the very annoying ones." You replied, playing along with Din's idea of a joke, although you were starting to feel slightly bad for the guy since he didn't seem bad at all.

"Can we talk business?" Cara said, interrupting the conversation.

"What's the plan?" Din asked her.

"The whole base is powered by a reactor. We sneak in, overload the reactor, and get the hell outta there."

Taking into account that the base looked almost abandoned, it seemed unlikely that you'd run into any trouble. That's why you didn't go much through the plan and, after getting some weapons and a comlink each, you all hopped onto Mythrol's landspeeder and headed there.

There wasn't much space in the speeder so you, being the tiniest, ended up sitting in the back, between Greef and Din. Funnily enough, as cramped as you were there, your leg was barely brushing Greef's since Din was holding you so close to him you could barely move. In fact, a bit too close to him because you felt like your whole body was on fire. Based on the look Greef had given you and how amused he was feeling, you were sure he had noticed this.

In fact, Din's behaviour towards you since you had left the inn had been very unusual.

It's true that you had felt slightly heartbroken the moment you had come out of the refresher and he was waiting for you, whole armour on, and ready to leave. It had made you feel as if last night had not happened at all because he was no longer Din – the man you had spent the night with, no clothes on, let alone armour – and he was back to being Mando, the bounty hunter.