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Paz and Din ran to the cockpit. There was another ship outside across from theirs. Out from the ship walked Bo Katan. And she wasn't alone.

"Shit," Paz cussed.

"She can't know I'm here," Din said.

"Then you should have left your ship in the hangar," Paz grumbled.

"Shit," Din repeated. Eyeing his starfighter, out in the open.

"Does she know that it belongs to you?" He asked.

"Maybe, maybe not. She could have seen me leave in it at our last meeting." He sighed.

"Okay, time to go out and greet her before she boards us and finds your naked girlfriend," he chuckled.

"She's not," Din sighed but gave up on the protest. "Bo thinks I'm still hunting Vissna on Mos Espa."

Paz nodded, "alright let's go."

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The two Mandalorians exited the freighter, Bo Katan and five of her followers lowered their blasters at the sight of them.

"Mando," Bo exclaimed, removing her helmet to greet him properly, her expression questioning. Paz grunted at the fact that she removed her helmet and Bo pretended not to notice.

"I wasn't expecting to see you here." Din said.

"And I thought I left you on Mos Espa," Bo replied.

"I'm following a lead, but the fob broke so I've been tracking on my own," he said. It wasn't a complete lie. Her fob had broken. Vissna had seen to that the first time she passed by him.

"I can get you one," she said looking around curiously at the open mine. Then she glanced at Paz, "Who's your friend?" She asked.

"This is Paz Vizsla of Clan Vizsla, a Mandalorian from my Tribe. He has been helping me," Din said.

Bo considered this. She looked between the two. Then she turned towards her group, "you three, go investigate the mines," she ordered then she continued her conversation with Din. "Why are you still tracking the bounty? Hasn't the war on Mos Espa ended? I have nothing to give you should you complete the bounty."

"I found it to be a necessary bounty to complete," he said.

Bo nodded knowingly, "It is." She looked over to Paz, remembering the trouble she'd had in the past with Clan Vizsla.

"The mines have been cleaned out," a scout came back out to report to Bo Katan.

"What do you mean? The mines are non operational, destroyed." She said with a furrowed brow.

"Someone was here recently, trying to rebuild," her scout said.

Bo stared at Din, clearly not trusting him. "And you had said your tracking led you here?" Din didn't answer. "Koska, get another fob for Mando over here," Bo smiled, wanting to see for herself whether or not her niece was on this moon. Koska Reeves nodded and headed for their ship. "How much do you know about your bounty?" Bo asked. Din didn't answer. "You've spoken to her?" He still didn't respond. "She can be very convincing." Bo took a few steps closer. "She was my niece, Satine. Named after my sister." She confessed.

"Was?" Din asked with a small amount of spite.

"I can see why someone from Clan Vizsla might be enticed by her charm," she said glaring at Paz who crossed his arms and straightened up taller. "But you must see her for who she really is. For what she really is," she said to Din. "When my nephew died, begging me to take his child, I was ready to lay my life down for Satine. But that child grew up into something else. A monster." Bo paused to look around, making sure no one else was listening. "I once left her alone with a group of trusted allies. When I returned, no one was alive. No one, except Satine. She was five. I don't know what she did to them. They were all bleeding out of their ears. She looked up at me, eyes red, black lines all over her skin, bloody tears streaming down her face." Bo waited for a reaction to her story.

Din wasn't sure Bo's story was true, it very well could have been. He remembered what Vissna had showed him, the memory of her wilting. Maybe when Vissna said she couldn't stop, she truly couldn't, even if she wanted to. She had to keep fighting, causing chaos, manipulating, lying… if she didn't, she would wilt. Everything she did was to control what she can't control. Her gift, as she called it.

"Every time I'd leave her alone," Bo continued, "she'd kill everyone in sight. Each time, the scene was more and more gruesome than the next. After a while, I tried to kill her," Bo confessed, "but I couldn't bring myself to do it then. She was so young. I did the next best thing. I sent her away and hoped I'd never see her again."

"You sold her into slavery," Din seethed.

Bo cocked her head at his sudden show of anger. Din mentally cussed at himself for letting it slip out. Bo made a circle around Din, like she was inspecting him. She considered the hate behind his speech to be a sign of his change in loyalty. "You were the Mandalorian I sold her to? Weren't you?" Din didn't answer. Bo smirked, "Galaxy is smaller than you'd think, huh? I didn't sell her into slavery. You did."

"You didn't care where she ended up as long as she wasn't with you," Din couldn't help himself. Bo had gone against everything he was taught. She had a foundling under her care, and she'd forsaken it.

"You weren't there when Darth Maul murdered my sister," Bo scoffed. "He murdered Pre Vizsla." She turned to Paz, "that's right, didn't know that? Satine's- no, Vissna's Master killed one of your Clan. And I saw in that little girl's eyes the same menace that burned in his. She can't live. This time I won't hesitate. She will be killed." Bo promised them both.

Koska returned with the fob. Bo held it out in her hand, "Now then, let's see who's telling the truth. And who can no longer be trusted." Din readied his hand closer to his blaster. Bo held the fob out and moved it around pointing towards the freighter. But the fob remained silent. Bo's eyes flashed up towards Din. Her eyes narrowed. Din exhaled, relieved. It was Vissna. He knew she was silencing this one from the ship. Bo clenched her jaw and scowled, "you wouldn't mind if we checked your ship, would you?"

Din and Paz exchanged a look, Paz shrugged. "Go ahead," Din said.

Bo motioned for Koska to follow her, Din followed behind Koska, then Bo spun around. "Actually," she said, "you two wouldn't mind waiting out here? Would you?" She smirked, "unless you have something to hide."

"We'll wait here then," Din told her.

"Great," Bo smirked again before heading into Vissna's ship.

Paz walked over to Din and leaned behind him, "so we're fucked, right?" He said.

"Be ready for anything," Din told him in a quieted voice.

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