Nothing Like a Flower [1]

Lily had never truly recovered from the fall of the Empire. It had taken everything from her.

Her home, her family, her sense of belonging.

It left behind only scars and the hollow feeling of being forgotten by a galaxy that had already moved on.

For a long time, she drifted, surviving rather than living. Until the day she crossed paths with Greef Karga, magistrate of the Bounty Hunters' Guild. He saw something in her. Potential, or maybe just desperation, and offered her work. One job turned into another, and before she realized it, Lily had built a new identity for herself: bounty hunter.

Detached. Efficient. Necessary.

So when a bounty unlike any other crossed her path-something described only as a "priceless experiment", she didn't hesitate. Credits like that didn't come twice.

But the hunt wasn't hers alone.

Somewhere along the trail, she encountered a Mandalorian. Silent, relentless, and bound by a code she couldn't quite understand. Neither trusted the other, but the job was too big to walk away from. Reluctantly, they formed an alliance.

In a galaxy built on betrayal, partnerships were fragile things.

And just because they were hunting together, didn't mean they weren't keeping secrets.