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As Celeste and Mando make their way back into his ship, the girl was obviously sad about the little one, but she also knew it wasn't her place to say anything...
"Hey... thanks for that back there." She says finally being able to thank Mando for saving her ass with the guy in the bar. She didn't know how it would've went down if he didn't show up, and she didn't even want to thing about it.
"No problem." He sighs out while finally sitting down on the driver seat, causing the girl to take the seat beside her as well. She couldn't help but feel as a burden already, and she didn't want that. She wanted to be able to fight or at least stand her own ground—she didn't want him to think she was weak.
"Your armor looks great by the way, must of costed a lot." She says changing the subject, while her hands smooth out her black leather pants in boredom.
"Thanks—Good decision on the new pair of clothes." He says to the girl while staring up his ship, causing her to slightly have a boost of confidence. Too be honest, she didn't even think he'd realize or care to compliment her choice of apparel.
"Yeah, I think the woman felt bad for me. Gave it to me for practically nothing." She says while slightly smiling to herself. Then an awkward silence took over, causing her to realize the man wasn't going to respond to her. She couldn't help but look over at his tensed posture, signaling he was bothered by something...
"You alright?" She asks, hoping she didn't upset him in anyway.
"Can I ask you a question?" He asks causing her to be taken aback, but nods none of the less. "Sure, shoot." She says to the man with a small smile.
"What would've you done?" The man's asks, causing Celeste to be taken back by the comment at first. She was assuming that he was conflicted about how he should feel about turning in the child in.
"I don't want to tell you what you should do... but Kuiil always told me that,'Sometimes it is better to loose and do the right thing, than to win and do the wrong thing.'" Celeste tells the man, causing him to suddenly turn off everything on the ship, before then standing up from his seat.
"Stay here, I'll be back soon." He tells her while walking out from the pilot room, causing her to furrow her brows.
"Where you going?" She asks clearly confused at his sudden change of actions, and following the man quickly behind.
"Here, take this." He says while throwing her a blaster, before exiting the ship completely, and leaving the girl unaware of his new assignment.
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While Celeste waited she was starting to grow bored, so she began looking around the ship aimlessly. She couldn't believe he just made her stay in the ship for a couple of hours while he was doing something productive. It was like she was a child in his eyes, and it bothered her. She was hoping her whole trip wouldn't end up being like this...
As soon as she heard multiple gun blaster go off, she began to grow worried. She quickly ran towards the nearest window peer out from, and what she saw was a battle happening throughout the city. She could see blasters shooting off, along with large rockets launching.
"Holy shit." She mutters under her breath at the scene, before hearing footsteps entering the ship. She quietly peered over noticing the man from the bar earlier trying to find somewhere to take Mando by surprise, which only made Celeste do the exact same thing. She quickly hid behind a few boxes, and watches the man climb up the ladder to remain hidden.
Once Mando makes his way back, the man finally climbs back down from the ladder, surprising the man. Celeste would be lying if she wasn't nervous what was about to come, and immediately got her blaster ready.
"Hold it, Mando." The man says while aiming his gun at her bods, causing her to clam up while holding the metal object in her hand.
"I didn't want it to come to this. But you broke the code." The man starts off telling him, while aiming his blaster at Mando higher. Due to Celeste being afraid of something bad happening, she immediately stand up from behind the crates, and shoots towards the man. The two then watch as the blaster directly hits near his heart, sending him flying, and down the ships walkway.
This caused Mando to turn around slightly in shock from her shooting skills, before quickly handing the girl the child in her arms. "Nice shot." He quickly says before disappearing into the pilot room, and immediately getting the ship ready to launch out of there. Celeste then follows quickly behind to take a seat, while holding the child in her arms. The little one seemed really happy about her holding him, and immediately made cooing sounds at the sight of her. Celeste was completely glowing in happiness, but Mando was just too busy to see it. She was glad to see that the tuff man came to his senses with the kid, and listened to his instincts.
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As soon as Mando flies them out of the city, they were then above the high clouds. Just before Mando was going to fly further out, the two are welcomed by one of Mando's tribe members jet packing in the air, waving.
"Woah, look at that." She says to the child before pointing over to the flying man, which caused the little one to laugh at the sight.
"I gotta get one of those." Mando says to himself once the man flew away, clearly impressed at the man's jet pack. Celeste's smile only widened at the thought her boss owning one, and how much trouble he'd get himself into with it.
"Where are we headed now?" She asks the man once they were out in the middle of space.
