"You would probably be easier to deal with if you weren't hungry or cranky," Garth'zel says dryly, carrying Ezra back the way he came, ignoring the street vendor. Which has the side effect of him heading away from the stormtroopers.

"Before you start up again, think carefully about if you really want the stormtroopers further down the road paying too much attention to you," he says quietly. That should make the child shut up, if nothing else does.