Anakin and Padmé had stopped running. They had no way to keep running, because they had already reached their destination. Under cover of darkness, they had hidden inside a relatively sturdy, distinctly Tatooine-style domed sand-people house while surrounded by enemies.
After spending the entire afternoon trembling with fear, Padmé finally breathed a sigh of relief. At last, she no longer had to worry about being dried into a corpse by the heat and arid wind while riding that damn enemy-killing speeder.
Of course, that was unimportant. Right now, Padmé only wanted a huge glass of clean water! Even if she was going to die later, even if those bounty hunters cut off her head and preserved it in a glass tank for some damn Trade Federation governor, all she wanted was to drink her fill before she died!
Unfortunately...
There was nothing here!
She had already realized it when they rushed in. There was nothing in this village... no water, no food, no sand people, and none of the "friends" Anakin had mentioned! This was simply an abandoned village that had been deserted for quite some time. Worse, she and Anakin were completely surrounded by the bounty hunters, and the likely outcome was that they would neither escape nor defeat them.
"Anakin?"
"What happened to those friends you mentioned? Why isn't there a single person here? I haven't seen anything at all?!"
After sitting down, Padmé grew increasingly uneasy from thirst.
She knew that they were now surrounded by at least two hundred elite bounty hunters. Yet the friends Anakin had said lived here and could help them were nowhere to be found! This was nothing more than a ruined village abandoned long ago. Apart from the two of them and the enemies surrounding the place outside, there was truly