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The salty sea air wrapped around my senses. I took in a deep breath as I lent on the railing of the boat. The scent was almost calming, if it weren't for the contrasting smell of the old fishing boat that we were standing on. 
The boat rocked lightly as the waves lapped against the sides in a rhythmic motion. The sky overhead was a light gray. The sun hardly managed to shine through it. It mirrored the colour of the dark ocean. I found the gloomy weather to be strangely comforting. Perhaps it was because the colour mirrored the beskar armor of Din Djarin. 
The man in question was standing to my left while the child's pram was to my right. He was standing stoically beside me, even though I wasn't looking at him, the feeling of his presence brought me comfort. 
"Coming around." I heard a man on the boat shout. 
"Try the other side." Another man replied to him
"Oh, give me! Yeah, thank you." A man replied. They had been fishing while taking us to the mandalorians. I turned my head to look at them and saw them pulling a net over towards the side of the boat. 
"Over the side!" One of them called out. 
"You ever see a mamacore eat? Quite a sight." A man said to us as he looked over at the water. 
Din and I didn't reply to the man. The tension in the air now felt awkward. The man seemed slightly annoyed by our lack of response. 
"Child might take an interest." The man said. The child caught my attention when he cooed up at us. He looked like he wanted to see a mamacore eat. 
"You should take a look." The man insisted. Alarm bells were starting to ring in my head again but I don't know why. 
Din sighed and turned towards the man. "Come on over here." The man gestured for Din to follow him. 
I hesitated before I followed Din and the child over to the large hole in the boat where the mamacore was being held. I still had a bad feeling deep within me. 
"Get a good view. Let the kid see." The man insisted. I walked over to the large grating on the floor with Din by my side. I was trying to push down the feeling of unease but it didn't seem to want to go away. 
"All right, close enough." Din said cautiously as we stopped near the edge. 
The man grunted as he pushed the net full of fish towards the hole. "Then here we go." 
The grating quickly retracted so the man could dump the fish into the massive tank. Once the net was hovering over the water, the bottom opened up and dropped the fish into the pool of water. 
The water immediately came to life. It was bubbling at the surface like it was being boiled. I couldn't see anything else though, the creature was pretty well hidden. 
"She must be hungry. Oftentimes we'll feed her in the early morning, but we missed that cause we were goin' out of port!" Suddenly, the man swung a pole at the child's pram and knocked him into the water. The pram hovered in the middle of the tank just above the water. 
"No!" Din and I cried out at the same time. My heart was beating rapidly at the sight. I knew something wasn't right here. I just wished I had listened to myself. 
In a panic, I reached my hand out to try and use my power. It worked for a moment, the child's pram began to move towards me. But I wasn't fast enough. The mamacore jumped out of the water and wrapped its sharp teeth around the pram. I saw the child quickly close his pod before he disappeared into the mouth of the beast. 
My heart felt like it stopped and all I could think of was getting to the child. Without even thinking about it, I leapt over into the water, diving head first into the freezing cold darkness.