Revisiting a scene from the last episode of The Book of Boba Fett again! Please enjoy Sand/Awestruck for this week’s @dankfarrikdrabbles prompt.
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Get. Up.
His head was spinning and his back was hurting something terrible. But he had to get to Grogu. Maybe if he was fast enough he could activate the jetpack, grab him and fly away. He’d figure out how to deal with the rancor later – the boy was his priority. The roars coming out of the beast were definitely not good and he didn’t have time to figure out why the child had escaped Peli’s arms. Or why he had decided to challenge the enraged animal on his own.
Din pushed against the packed sand with a groan, relegating his throbbing pain to the back of his mind for the time being and tried very hard not to let the vision of the toddler seconds away from being eaten alive overwhelm him and send him into a panic.
And then Grogu raised his ridiculously tiny hand.
And the rancor stopped moving.
And Din stopped breathing.
The kid was… What was he doing? Din could only look on in astonishment as Grogu managed to get the beast to fall asleep, using only the power of his mind. Slowly, oh so slowly. Every second lasting an eternity, as Din wondered worriedly if he should intervene. But there was no need in the end, and he found his breath again when the rancor’s head softly touched the sand with a last, hoarse exhale.
He’d questioned the boy’s return earlier – had he managed to learn anything from Skywalker? Was it safe for him to be at the mercy of the galaxy again? And it seemed that he now had the start of an answer: the child was more powerful than ever before, and he wouldn’t be at the mercy of anything – or anyone. Not as long as he still had breath in him, Din decided, standing up shakily with the help of the Twi’lek majordomo.
Grogu was back to being his number one priority, he acknowledged, observing him succumb to sleep, burrowed against the rancor, utterly spent. And that realization brought a smile to his face – his life had meaning again.
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I’m presenting this screen shot without offering any of my criticisms of this show (or of Star Wars as a franchise). Let’s just say that show runners playing with their toys does not make compelling storytelling and I’m left wondering what the intentions of said show runners were regarding the character of Boba Fett (who was barely fleshed out and ill served here). An unsatisfying ending to an unsatisfying season.
