Star Wars: The Mandalorian Junior Novel by Joe Schreiber

Author:Joe Schreiber
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub, azw3
Publisher: Disney Book Group
Published: 2021-01-05T00:00:00+00:00

AFTER LEAVING the cantina, Mando walked back to the hangar bay, to the Razor Crest, and went aboard the vessel, making his way back to the compartment where he’d hidden the Child.

But the Child wasn’t there.

Mando turned and ran down the ship’s ramp. “Hey!”

Inside her office, Peli Motto jerked upright and raised her head, shouting, “I’m awake! I’m awake!”

“Where is he?”

“Quiet!” She came out, holding the Child and bouncing him in her arms, and glared at him. “You woke it up! Do you have any idea how long it took me to get it to sleep?”

“Give him to me.”

Instead, Motto stood her ground and glared at him, with the Child clutched protectively in her arms. “Not so fast! You can’t just leave a child all alone like that.” She scowled with disapproval and maternal instinct. “You know, you have an awful lot to learn about raising a young one.”

The Mandalorian looked down at the Child, who had stopped crying and was gazing up at Motto, babbling contentedly in her arms.

“Anyway,” Motto went on, “I started the repair on the fuel leak. I had a couple setbacks I want to talk to you about.” Shifting the Child easily into the crook of her left elbow, she reached up to the wall console, flipped open the access panel, and typed in a diagnostic code. The Child observed all this with vivid interest. “You know I didn’t use any droids, as requested, so it took me a lot longer than I expected.” She glanced hesitantly at him. “But I figured you were good for the money, since you have an extra mouth to feed.”

Mando glanced back to the Child again, hearing him coo and gurgle. The kid seemed to recognize that, whatever Peli Motto’s financial motives might be, he was safe with her.

“Thank you,” he said.

The earnestness of his response seemed to surprise her, but only briefly. “Oh, well, I guess I was right,” she said. “You got a job, didn’t you?” He didn’t need to reply, but she followed him outside, still talking. “You know, it’s costing me a lot of money to keep these droids even powered up!”

The Mandalorian stopped. In front of him, Toro Calican stood next to a pair of speeder bikes that floated effortlessly above their own shadows. The young hunter was leaning against one of the bikes with his arms crossed, head tilted back in a pose that he’d no doubt practiced in a hundred different mirrors.

He gestured at the bikes. “Hey, Mando, what do you think?”

He inspected the bikes cautiously, not expecting much. They were secondhand at best, mashed together out of spare parts, but they’d make it to the Dune Sea.

“What do you expect?” Calican asked defensively. “This isn’t Corellia,” he said, referring to the planet known for top-of-the-line ship manufacturing. He turned to nod at Motto, who was still standing there with the Child in her arms. “Ma’am.”

Peli Motto said nothing, just gave him the suspicious glance of one who’d seen his kind come

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