The Hunter
Mid Rim, Western Reaches, Biox Detour Hyperspace Route; Takodana
Juno Wren was hunting a jedi. A considerable bounty had been posted by the Sreedo Corporation out of 244-Core, and while she was loathe to deal with galactic conglomerates, she couldn't deny the appeal of the vast sum of credits. She wasn't greedy by any means, but her profession was an expensive one, and all the more dangerous for her choice of quarry.
The Mandalorian- tall, well-made, heavily armored and perpetually helmeted- had tracked her prey across the reaches of space to Malagan's Redoubt on Takodana, a labyrinthine starport that sprawled the lengths of the Suwalan River. The markets streets were bustling as spacers, smugglers, explorers, and all manner of multi-eyed and many-limbed folk strolled the fairways, haggling at the stalls; there were Ithorians quibbling over bolts of shimmering fabric, Trandoshans huddled around a stall where an old Codru-Ji woman grilled meats over an open flame, and there, slipping into the cantina Ka'Xa Lerru, a lavender-skinned Twi'lek clad in nondescript clothing.
And so it begins.
It was the work of Juno's life, to hunt Force users. She had learned to shield her mind from their touch, to fight against and circumvent their electric style of combat, to isolate them from their source of power- everything she was had been sculpted and molded to walk the path of the Mandokarla, even her armor and her weapons; Beskar'gam to fend off their lightsabers, sonic and concussion blasters to nullify them, a taozin skin nodule to mask her presence, mandalorian manacles to hold them prisoner. They were only tools, however- she was the true weapon, crafted for the glorious purpose of the hunt.
The Way was in her blood, for her mother had been a Y'ivra- a Force hunter- of the Mandokarla, and her mother's mother, and her mother's mother before her, and so on for as long as her clan had called Kestri home. But this... this was to be her first true hunt. Her excitement, thrumming in her bones like an ionic current, was tempered by a lifetime of strict discipline.
She followed the hidden jedi into the cantina.
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