CW: minor canon-typical violence
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“The water isn’t safe, Mesh’la ,” he called from the shore.
You smiled to hear his voice, arms curving outward to catch the moonlight, and continued your exercise without pause.
Din cleared his throat and tried again.
“I can hear you,” you hummed, twisting your body so your back was to him. “The water is soothing to me.”
Din studied his feet as he considered your answer. They were bare– which was not his usual practice– and sand stuck to the little tuft of hairs on top of his big toes. There were things in the lake, but he wasn’t about to question a woman who felt a planet’s energy like a physical thing. Then again, you hadn’t been here when a monster had interrupted the covert’s last helmet ceremony and eaten half a dozen Mandalorians.
“What are you doing?” he asked. His thumbs itched to loop into his utility belt, but it was sitting in the gunship around the corner, along with his weapons, armor, and armorweave. He idly traced a hole along the outside seam of his base layer pants; it had been a long time since he’d gone out unprotected like this.
“Couldn’t sleep,” you murmured, scooping an arm up to the sky while counterbalancing with the other.
That was hard to believe. You’d trained for hours with the covert every morning and he knew you’d been engaging in your own exercises outside of that. If it wasn’t a surplus of physical energy keeping you awake, then it must be–
“Something on your mind?” he ventured.
Your arms ceased their graceful motions and dropped to your sides. Unfortunately, you were still facing away from him so Din had no way to read your facial expressions.
With a heavy sigh, you began to talk– only you were still facing the opposite way and your words were lost to him. Din grumbled and took a step forward, submerging his feet up to the ankles.
“I can’t hear you,” he complained, turning the microphone sensitivity on his helmet to max.
“Come out here with me,” you called toward shore.
Din grimaced as his ears rang with the amplified power of your voice. He lowered the volume back to normal sensitivity but he wavered on the shore, uncertain.
“The water–” he stammered, wanting to rip you out of it.
“Isn’t safe, I heard you.” You raised your hand, inviting him to step in. “If anything happens, I’ll sacrifice myself like a good little Abantis.”
With a sigh, he stripped his base layers off and threw them unceremoniously up the beach. Of the two of you, he was now the more naked one. Why he’d even bothered, when the garments were so thin they’d have dried in a matter of minutes, was a mystery, but the water did feel rather good on his naked flesh.
You took his hand and drew him to your side. Din’s heart just about exploded when your head thumped into the cup between his shoulder and chest, fitting perfectly. Your braids were a little worse for wear after the days of training; he knew you’d steal away one morning to wash and rebraid it.
He followed the jut of your chin to see an enormous moon rising in the distance, its reflection stretched long across the water’s surface. It was no meteor shower on Keeos, but it was pleasing, he supposed. Leave it to you to find something beautiful when you were trapped, nearly against your will, on yet another planet. After all your years of captivity, who could blame you?
“What’s on your mind?” he asked again.
You tucked your chin and raised your free hand to stroke absently at his stomach. Din groaned inwardly. There was nothing left to hide what your touch did to him and Din willed his cock to behave. This was serious .