Just Outside of Nevarro, Tuesday Morning Fandom Time

[thedadalorian]

Things had leaned toward even stranger than what Din had seen on the island to begin with. And, on top of that, the kid had been anxious and worried the entire time on Monday. Which was why he got the Razorcrest ready and took off that night to see if maybe Greef had a job for him until whatever that was blew over.

At the very least, it let the kid pass out on his lap as soon as they were far enough away from the planet.

"Alright, kid. Almost there," he said, flicking through the controls as he set up to enter atmosphere and land.

[for the stow-away!]

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[thedadalorian]

Din already had a gun in his hand and was turning to shoot the intruder before seeing who it was.

"Dank farrik," he hissed like this wasn't just on par with how his life had been going lately. "Are you serious right now?"

[flourish_or_perish]

"Were you really gonna shoot me?" Faye wondered, her hand lightly resting on her own gun. "Silly, that's a good way to compromise the hull if you're not careful."

Right, he was the unreasonable one.

[thedadalorian]

"It wouldn't penetrate the hull." Din, c'mon!

He put the blaster away, letting out a deeply annoyed sigh as the kid made sleepy noises as he woke up slowly.

[flourish_or_perish]

"Good morning." Maybe Faye would just address the kid, since Din didn't seem thrilled to see her. "So where are we?"

She hadn't stowed away because she had wanted to go where they were going or had any idea where that was, specifically; she had stowed away because she didn't want to be on Fandom.

Or alone.

(Shh.)

[thedadalorian]

"Nevarro," he said, finishing up the process of getting the ship onto the planet without more pieces breaking off. "Which you don't know."

It was a weirdly volcanic looking planet with bits where people could live.

"You can get caff once we land."

[flourish_or_perish]

"It looks scenic," Faye observed, making a face. "Why are we here?"

You know, instead of somewhere fun?

[thedadalorian]

"I'm here to get a job." Why she was here was up in the air!

Grogu made a little noise as he carefully climbed down from Din's lap and onto the ground to go say hello to Faye.

"My contact with the Guild is here."

Notice how he wasn't mentioning how he sort of depleted the number of bounty hunters in the area in order to be a dad or anything.

[flourish_or_perish]

"You couldn't find anything closer to home?" Faye asked with a snort, dropping into a crouch to say hi to Grogu.

Not that she secretly liked the kid or anything.

[thedadalorian]

Grogu did that adorable eye rub thing at her, yawning real, real big.

"It was home," Din replied dryly as the ship sort of shuddered a little with turbulence.

[flourish_or_perish]

Faye stuck a hand out to grab onto something for some stability, just in case the turbulence got worse, and she wouldn't admit it, but she also kept an eye on Grogu lest the little guy go flying or something.

"I don't say this often, but Fandom looks like an improvement," she noted, taking in the arid landscape below.

[thedadalorian]

"Better than some places," he said as the ship moved toward the landing area of Greef's town. Which looked... much less messed up than he last saw it. Admittedly, that was a low bar.

Also, just be glad he didn't go to Tatooine or something.

"You want nice, you go into New Republic territory."

Which he made sound like a bad plan.

[flourish_or_perish]

"Mmm." Yeah, that sounded like authorities, and she was not especially interested in those unless they were handing over money for a bounty or something. "Who's in charge around here, then, if not the...New Republic?"

Please say no one. Please say no one was in charge.

[thedadalorian]

"At the moment? Him," he said, pointing over to where an older man was waiting for him to finish landing. "Greef Karga."

Who totally had a World's Best Grandpa mug because of the kid, you know.

[flourish_or_perish]

"Did he know you were coming or is he just that good?" Faye asked lightly, eyeing the man from here and weighing her options -- as always -- as far as robbing him versus sleeping with him versus both.

[thedadalorian]

"He knew I was coming." Greef would just think she had moxie, really.

There was also a muscular, intimidating woman standing next to him with a faint smile on her face.

"But he's pretty good," he had to admit. "Ran the guild here before the Imps showed up."

[flourish_or_perish]

"Imps?" Faye slanted a look over at him. "I'm sure you don't mean little goblin-y things, but I don't know what they are otherwise."

Look at her at least attempt to use context clues.

[thedadalorian]

Whoa there, someone with less of a clue about the extended universe than him!

"Imperials. Used to be a republic, then an empire, now a republic again." He was fuzzy on the details because you just kept your head down when living this life.

[flourish_or_perish]

"Ugh, politics." Gross. "But like, what, he gives you your bounties?"

That seemed inefficient when one could just watch a broadcast that would set every bounty hunter in the solar system after the same target.

[thedadalorian]

"He gives out bounties," Din agreed, opening the loading door to let them out.

And there was an immediate and boisterous, "Mando! So good to see you again!" from Greef before he noticed Faye. "And who is your very lovely companion?"

[flourish_or_perish]

"I like him!" Faye announced before crooking a little wave at Greef and making her way out of the ship. "I'm Faye, hi. He and I go way back."

She nodded over to Din as she said this. All the way back to, like, February.

[thedadalorian]

Greef immediately stepped forward to take her hand to kiss, "Enchanted."

Din just sighed as Cara smirked at him over all of this. Because he was so, so bullied. "She's one of the employees at that shop you set up. Faye, Greef Karga. Cara Dune."

"Magistrate of Nevarro," Greef said, clearly hoping to impress.

[flourish_or_perish]

Faye gave him an appreciative raise of her brows, like that was, indeed, very impressive (even if in reality those words meant almost nothing.)

"It's a pleasure," she said to Greef, appropriately fawning over that hand-kissing before tossing a bright smile towards Cara.

Oh, she recognized that smirk, and it just made her think that she'd found something of a kindred spirit. (At least, in some ways. She was awful muscular.)

[thedadalorian]

Cara just looked amused by the whole thing. "Not his usual type," she said dryly.

"She stowed away on the ship," Din said because they were all terrible people and he regretted being friends with any of them.

"Ah," Cara said. "Still a soft touch, huh?"

[flourish_or_perish]

"The softest," Faye declared, because she knew he would probably hate it. "I mean, look at the baby."

He was around here somewhere, probably.

[thedadalorian]

"Where is the child?" Greef asked as the kid in question was toddling on down the gangplank. "My boy!"

Well.

"It is a boy, right?"

Din shrugged because he didn't know much of anything about the kid's species. And the only person on island who knew, was avoiding Grogu like the plague.

[flourish_or_perish]

"I always call him a boy. So do you guys know what he is?" Faye asked curiously. "I've been leaning towards, like, a rabbit crossed with a turtle."

You know, with the ears and the...green.

[thedadalorian]

Greef had already scooped the kid up to hold. "Only with the..." He wiggled his fingers to illustrate the magic powers and all that.

"I was hoping for a job," Din said, cutting through the chatter and trying to stay on task here. Like the professional in the room.

[flourish_or_perish]

"And I'm helping," Faye contributed, producing a nail file from a pocket and setting to work on her left hand.

Look, she hadn't exactly planned on helping, no, but as long as she was here....

[thedadalorian]

"Ah," Greef said, sharing a glance with Cara. "Well, since you've been gone, we've been cleaning up Nevarro."

"He means it's not as full of scum as usual," Cara added. "But then again, you helped with some of that."

Look, sometimes you just had to shoot your way out of a town, carrying a small child. Okay? Okay.

"Anything," Din said. Because he was already here and he was pretty sure Faye would rob Greef blind if left to her own devices.

"Well..." Greef began.

[flourish_or_perish]

How dare you, Din. Just because she absolutely would. Rude.

"I'm a bounty hunter, too," Faye contributed, waving her nail file. "I won't just be dead weight."

Or, honestly, if they had a bar -- cantina -- that needed someone to sit in it and, like...watch locals, that was also very in her wheelhouse.

[thedadalorian]

"There were rumors about some Mandalorians," Greef said, like he was trying to be kind to Din even as he flashed Faye another smile. "On Korrus."

He went immediately alert at that news, probably letting Faye know how important it was to him. "Rumors are enough for me."

[flourish_or_perish]

It was a distinctive enough word that Faye remembered where she had heard it before. "More of you?" she clarified, gesturing vaguely to the helmet. "Count me in."

(Maybe she could get a helmet, too!)

[thedadalorian]

"Greef can watch the kid if you're worried," Cara said, grinning full on now at how uncomfortable Faye was making him. Because she was a terrible friend. Just terrible. The worst.

Also, she wasn't gonna babysit, thanks.

"You can stay here," he suggested like it would work when she had a hook in him with this.

[flourish_or_perish]

"Oh, hell no," Faye argued. "I want to meet the rest of the Mandalorians." And ask them weird questions! "Plus, you need backup."

Because she was obviously the natural choice for backup, here. Ignore Ms. Shoulders over there.

[thedadalorian]

Oh no, Ms. Shoulders thought this was hilarious.

"You'll have fun," Cara said, slapping him on the back hard enough to cause him to sway forward a little bit.

"Fine," he said like this was being forced on him. It was why he'd end up a taxi service for a frog lady in the future, you know.