The Mandalorian Armor 13
Retroguy97 633 19th Mar, 2025
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The sharp, sudden movement had knocked the blaster free from Dengar's grip. Clutching the stone, he watched helplessly, time expanding into slow motion, as the weapon spun in the air and choking dust near the cavern's ceiling, then fell. Grip and muzzle tumbled end over end, beyond any point whereDengar could have caught it, even if he'd been able to take one of his clawing hands away from the stone. He saw something else then, somethingthat had come to life as unexpectedly as the buried Sarlacc. The sudden drop of the line had snapped Boba Fett's head back, so that his pale,unhelmeted visage was turned toward Dengar and the daylight spilling into the cavern from above. The bounty hunter appeared dead, as though themedical droids' disregarded warnings had proved true, after all; it might as well have been a corpse that Dengar and Neelah had carried through theunderground tunnels, and that now dangled unmoving in midair. . . .Boba Fett's eyes opened, gazing directly into Dengar's. Slow-motion time stopped entirely as Fett's cold regard pierced the other bounty hunter'sspirit. Then time started up again, slamming into microsecond events. One of Boba Fett's hands raised from his side, shot out and caught thefalling blaster, as sharply and deftly as an uncoiling serpent striking its prey. The weapon filled his grasp as though it were an extension of hisbeing, a part of him as much as the bones of his spine. Fett's gaze broke away. As Dengar watched from above, Boba Fett scanned downward to wherethe great bulk of the Sarlacc segment held Neelah trapped against the cavern's floor. He extended his arm, the blaster's muzzle on the same directcourse as his sight, straight into the massive curved flank of the Sarlacc. The cavern filled with blade-edged shadows as the blaster erupted intocoruscating fire, its explosive touch pulsing at a diagonal across the open space. Its force was enough to deflect the rope line from vertical,like a miniature rocket thrusting Boba Fett away from its flaring burst. Fett kept the blaster's impact pouring into the same spot on the curvedsurface of the Sarlacc as a burning stench mingled with the thick odor of decay that had already hung in the close, lung-oppressing air. At theexact same moment the Sarlacc segment reared upward, stung by the blaster's white-hot needle. Bits of broken scales and charred flesh scatteredacross the cavern; the creature's raw wound, cut deeper by the continuing fire, sizzled beneath an acrid haze of black smoke.-Chpt.13 pg.135
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