The Mandalorian stared behind his visor at the necklace wrapped around
the child’s small neck. It was the necklace Din gave Cara so
she gets access to the Mandalorian hideout on Nevarro without questions
asked. It was the necklace with the Mythosaur skull pendant which was
so long in his possession. He gave it away when he was certain that he
wouldn’t make it; when he was certain that he would die. A
warrior’s death was the most valued possibility to die in the
Mandalorian culture. But it wasn’t him who was meant to die
at this day.
Din reached out and took the pendant in his hand. There it was the
symbol of Mandalore. He was so proud when it was given to him after he
was coming to age. And now it was dangling from the child’s
neck. A child that now belonged to him according to the
armorer’s words. He looked behind his visor at the little one
and sighed inwardly. The child was so tiny. It wasn’t like he
was, when the Mandalorians took him as a foundling. He remembered how
the Mandalorian warrior reached out his hand after he had destroyed the
Super Battle Droid which was about to kill Din. The bounty hunter
remembered how he let the warrior pull him up and out of the hiding
place. Then the Mandalorian took him in his arms and flew away from the
battle field. It was the battle field where Din’s parents
were killed. His parents who weren’t soldiers but common
citizens who were caught in a war they never wanted.
And now he was here amidst an undeclared war it seemed. It was a war
between himself and an Imperial warlord, Moff Gideon, whom he knew from
the past. This time it was Din Djarin who saved a child from certain
death. And it was him who activated the Flying Phoenix to bring the
foundling to safety. But this time it wasn’t a child which
would be trained to become a Mandalorian. There wasn’t any
chance that the little guy would survive the strict training.
The tribe’s armorer gave him a mission calling him and the
child “A Clan of Two” as she was welding the
Mudhorn signet at his pauldron. He knew it would be difficult to
fulfill this mission, but he hoped that it wouldn’t be
impossible.
He let go of the pendant, turned to the console and activated the
engines. The Razor Crest ascended in orbit and
shortly after the Mandalorian and the child were on their way.
