She didn't hear the soft purr of the jetpack until it was too late. Gedde was ripped off the payment, the metal grappling hook violently shaking as he flew above the rooftops.
"Not again," she said and took off running. She was glad she took her big purse.
The thin white lines of jet stream arced behind the neon holo-sign atop Hutt's Casino. She dug into the deepest part of the mylar satchel and pulled out the thin silver bracelets. They clasped her tightly about her wrists, blinked to life, expanded into cuffs, and whirred as they responded to her flexed forearm. She rounded the corner.
The Casino loomed above her, a neon monolith of bad luck and worse owners. She raised her left arm and whispered, "Stay loose."
Twin steel cables as thin and striking as vipers launched from her left wrist, sealing their tips magnetically to the side of the building. The recoil was strong enough to dislocate one's shoulder, but she'd been doing this since before she could walk. Flying up the side the Casino was like dancing, feet brushing and jumping off the warm, dirt-caked metal, until she reached the point of contact. With a click, the cables detached, but there was still seven stories to go. Before gravity and the hard sidewalk so-many feet below could reclaim her, she fired her other wrist. Two more cables cut through the city air, attaching themselves to the metal framework of the holo-sign.
She crunched onto the gravel-covered rooftop. There he was, unmistakable in his green mask and armor, his jetpack idling, one hand lazily held his blaster. The other grasped Gedde's ankle, suspending his shaking, terrified body above the edge.
"Dad," she said. "Let go of my date."
Boba twitched his head and beheld her. So much like her mother. He tossed Gedde her direction, the safe-on-the-roof, non-splat one.
He folded his arms as she helped Gedde up.
"I'm fine. Really," she said. "He's a good guy."
She turned and kicked at the metal door to the stairwell and disappeared. The jetpack screamed as he flew into the starry night, screeching across the rooftops, and, the whole time, smiling.