May The Way Be With You

Bonding

I gasp as I see the damage to his chest plate, but don't have time to be worried as I see what a Mudhorn is. It's fucking huge! Taller than Din by a foot or so, and the biggest horn I have ever seen! Din gets up and goes to fire his pulse rifle, but it's jammed with mud. I'm rooted to the spot as the Mudhorn charges, sending Din flying again.

That breaks me out of my fear, and I pull out my blaster, firing at it. I land my hits, but it's as if I'm throwing snowballs at it. It turns on me and the kid, and I hear the kid whimpers in fear. It starts charging at us, and Din yells for me to dodge, he's got the kid. I dodge at the last second as Din sends the crib the opposite direction, making the Mudhorn crash into the rocky wall around us.

As I get up, I see the Mudhorn charge at Din again. He readies his flamethrower, and sets it off as the Mudhorn slams its horn down on his chest. I gasp and make my way around to the baby as Din uses his grappling hook, getting dragged to where I was standing moments ago. I fire my blaster, hoping to get its attention. It still sends Din flying again, and this time he did major damage to Din. I can feel his dizziness.

I try to get its attention as Din slowly gets up, but it starts charging. The kid looks up to me, and holds out his little hand. I take it, and feel That Feeling fill both of us. I hear the thought of lifting the Mudhorn into the air, and hold out my hand. The kid holds his hand out too, and just before the Mudhorn reaches Din, it seems held back.

'Keep going!' A thought is heard in my head. I look at the kid and feel he's doing the same thing I am. I look back to the Mudhorn, and see it rise a little in the air. The kid is too strained to keep going, and passes out. I double my efforts to keep it airborne, and Din takes the chance. He stabs it in the neck, killing it. The Mudhorn drops, Din going down for a moment too.

I'm torn between running to Din and checking on the baby. I see Din get up, and sigh in relief. When I look to the baby, he's in a deep sleep, breathing fine and moving a little. Din walks over, and looks between me and the kid.

"He's ok. Just very drained." I huff, also drained from how much effort I put in to keeping the Mudhorn in the air. It's a lot heavier than a ladder or a fire extinguisher.

"Are you alright?" He asks. I nod realizing I've never really used That Feeling in front of him like that before. He looks between the two of us, then heads into the cave. When he comes out, he's carrying one hairy ass egg shaped... Thing.

"Is that the egg!?" I exclaim. Din nods, and hands me the egg as he gathers his broken arm guard and rifle. Our walk back is slow, due to his injuries and my fatigue. I get the idea to heal him with That Feeling, and figure to try it. I lay my hand on his arm, and use That Feeling.

After a few moments, I can feel he's healed, but drop to my knees as fatigue washes over me. "Thief! Thief are you ok? Talk to me, Cyar'ika, what did you do!?" Din exclaims, dropping down next to me.

"You... You needed healing. So... I healed you. Like... Like I do... When I'm... Hurt." I huff in exhaustion. Din checks me over, then sighs. He has me climb on his back, carrying me and the egg while he puts his arm guard in the crib with the kid.

"Don't hurt yourself by helping me. I'm supposed to protect and take care of you." He says.

"Ey! It's a two way street, Nerf Herder!" I huff. He chuckles and shakes his head. Eventually we get back to the Crawler, and the little sand fleas cheer as they run to us. Din hands over the egg, and they walk away a little bit before holding it in the air and cheering. One of them cuts it open and shoves its hand in, pulling out goopy yolk and putting it in its... Mouth, I assume.

The others soon do the same thing, yolk getting everywhere. "Ew. I don't think I'll be able to eat eggs ever again." I say tiredly. Din just shakes his head and brings me to the trailer. Kuill looks up at us.