Sabine opened her eyes to darkness. A loud howling rang through her head again, the fifth time in the two days it had been since she and Ezra had finally been able to talk. She sat up and looked out the window of her room to see the landscape covered in the blue light of the moon and a figure standing atop a hill in the distance. Sabine grabbed her helmet and put it on while walking up to the window. She bent the rangefinder down in front of her eye and looked through it. It was Ezra. He sat down on the hill and looked up at the star speckled sky.
Sabine took off her helmet and smiled to herself. It was the first time he had done this since they rescued him from the planet. He and Kanan often left the group to meditate, and Ezra continued to do it after Kanan had sacrificed himself. Sometimes she would see Ezra looking like he was talking and hoped that somehow, some way he was able to receive some guidance from Kanan, or the force, or some other Jedi out there.
Sabine set her helmet on the window sill and sat on the cushion next to the window. She looked down to where her belt lay on the ground with a shiny piece of metal glimmering inside of it. The communication code of the Mandalorian she had met on Hosnian Prime. Her mother had saved him as a child, at least that's what he had said.
Last time she had heard from her mother was during the reign of the empire. She had called to warn Sabine to stay away from home. The empire had come and were laying waste to the cities and planets in the Mandalore system. The transmission with her mother had cut out and she had been unable to reconnect with her mother. A tear came to her eyes as she remembered the feeling of not knowing whether or not she was the last of her family still alive. She knew that at least a few had survived and were living in secret, Din Djarin had at least given her that hope, but not knowing if her family were still around still sat in the back of her head and engulfed her in these lonely, quiet moments.
Sabine forced her tears back and sat looking out the window until her eyes grew tired and she was finally forced to sleep, at least that's what she wanted to do. Instead she found herself out standing on the hill next to a still meditating Ezra. She looked down at him and he began to disappear, along with Hera's home, until she was standing in a field with tall grass and rock sculptures all around her.
It was Lothal. She was back on Lothal, at least in this dream she was. The moon still cast its blue light all around her in the open field, which marked the area that the Jedi temple ,once tall and proud, now sat desolate and abandoned. Not even the markings which Ezra had used to open the world between worlds remained.
A heavy breath behind her caught her attention. A humongous grey Lothwolf stood behind her, flanked by smaller white and black lothwolves. The grey wolf stared down at Sabine for what seemed like a few minutes, before sitting down, and the other two wolves following it's lead.
"Bring… the… guardian… home." the lothwolf growled.
"The guardian? What do you mean?" Sabine questioned. "Who are you? The leader of the lothwolves or something?"
"I… am… Dume…" The lothwolf huffed. Dume. Ezra had mentioned that name before. This must be the same wolf who spoke to him the night he found out about the world between worlds. "The… guardian… must… return…"
"Do you mean Ezra?" Sabine asked the wolf.
The wolf nodded its head and knelt down closer to Sabine. "He… must… return."
"Okay. I'll bring him back. I still don't understand who needs him or what he's supposed to be the guardian of, though."
The wolf looked back up toward the night sky and Sabine followed its gaze.
At first she couldn't see anything, but as she kept searching she noticed some of the stars disappearing behind something, no somethings. They were war ships. There weren't many, but even a small group would be able to do damage on an unprotected Lothal city.
Sabine looked back at the grey wolf who stood behind her, but instead of answering her, it just looked at her. The wolves and her surroundings began to fade.
The grey wolf stood with the black and white wolves following its lead. The wolves were nearly gone, but they were able to speak, the three voices in unison said one word.
"Sky...walker."
