Jace looked through the scope of his rifle, the reticle panning over the target. He had it scoped and doped. He just needed to pull the trigger. Jace had never seen anything like it before - a magnificently huge beast with a reptilian snout, jagged rows of teeth, and the eerie way it hunched over to move. It was almost as if it was meant to walk on hind legs, but leaned on long forearms with elongated claws. There was an intelligence in its eye that could pass for cunning, and it was almost unsettling to behold. Jace watched it tear flesh from its prey, an unfortunate deer with barely anything left on the carcass.
Hauron was next to him, both men crouched behind a log in the far distance deep in the dense forest. Vines wrapped and twisted around tree trunks, tall grass hiding the two from view. They were downwind from the beast to avoid letting it catch their scent. The backwater planet here put out a contract to hunt this ravenous and elusive monster that was a genetic experiment gone wrong. It had all the attributes of an apex predator mixed with camouflage skin that made it elusive and deadly to hunt. Which was why the cavalry was called in.
Jace had just finished convincing Hauron that he was going to hunt the beast for the lucrative bounty on the trek over. And not try to bring it back alive because that hot scientist woman insisted. She and the other officials were at odds with one another.
“Fuck,” Jace whispered as the moment was lost. The beast heard something in the distance and moved in the blink of an eye, blending into its surroundings and disappearing. The Mandalorian sighed and removed his helmet, running his gloved fingers through his sweat-stained emerald hair, “I didn’t hesitate,” He said brusquely, gazing into Hauron’s visor right next to him. He could already imagine his expression behind the helmet, “I didn’t have a good shot,” He lied through his teeth.
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