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[lionhandler]

If you want to get in touch with Shiro, through crystals, messenger bird, or in-person, this is the place to do so.

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[heartofalioness]

[Her smile grows a fraction larger.] My thoughts exactly.

[And there's the waitress again.] Thank you, miss. [Turkey... That's bird meat, she remembers...] Hmm the turkey sandwich actually sounds appealing. I'll have the same please, with a small fruit salad for the side?

[lionhandler]

[ Two turkey sandwiches and a small fruit salad, coming right out~

Just as before, the smile Shiro held on his face while the waitress was close by quickly disappears once she's off again. ]

So, that's Thace. What's next on the agenda?

[heartofalioness]

After that, the plan goes smoothly for a while. We finish disabling a ship and wormhole Zarkon's ship to cut it off from the rest of the fleet. Voltron was making quick work of destroying the ship, when... apparently Haggar and the druids had been working on a weapon to directly drain quintessence from planets, and Voltron was hit with a direct blast.

[The air chills and dampens again in remembered fear.]

Voltron was disabled, and it was a few moments before you responded to our hails. Shortly after that though, Zarkon emerged in this... power armor, the size of Voltron, and he was coming for you while you were still immobile.

[Another pause as Allura takes a sip of her tea. To keep her voice from drying out, to give Shiro a chance to react... to steady her own nerves at the fresh memories.]

[lionhandler]

[ Shiro's been working very hard on keeping calm through this conversation, and using dunamis techniques to keep his emotional effects from showing, but that wasn't going to work forever. A dark cloud starts to gather over his head. A weapon to drain quintessence from an entire planet at once.... The implications are horrifying, as is the thought of taking a hit from such a thing. Even if it disabled Voltron, it seems incredible that they even survived something like that.

Though, if they had Zarkon coming at them while Voltron was still out of commission, they (he) might not have survived much longer. He takes a deep breath to help steady his emotions, but otherwise waits in patient silence for Allura to continue. ]

[heartofalioness]

Luckily we were able to divert enough of the Castle's remaining power to fire at Zarkon and distract him. He reflected our blast back at us, and when we came to again all of our systems were down. I set Coran and Slav to try and get the Castle back online while Kolivan, Antok, and I went to take out the komar.

We were successful in infiltrating it, but Haggar and her druids fought back furiously. [Another fall in her expression, another aura of cold damp air.] We lost Antok...

And then... Shiro, Haggar is an Altean. I knocked back her hood and she was an Altean. I can only imagine she's been using the same methods as Zarkon to extend her lifespan but-- [She shakes her head to bring herself back on track, but it doesn't shake the look of confusion on her face.] And then she tried to hit me with a blast of magic, but... somehow I was able to shield myself... with quintessence. And use it to counter-attack, and to destroy the komar.

[lionhandler]

[ Shiro frowns. That was a lot of names and terms he doesn't recognize, but he understands the important parts. Haggar is Altean. He understands why it's such a disquieting revelation for Allura, but... it doesn't change a thing about how he feels about the witch. Still, maybe that's information they can use. ]

...I know you probably don't want to think about it right now, but... if Haggar is Altean, does that mean we have a better understanding of what she can do now?

[heartofalioness]

[If Shiro thought even a fraction of her anxiety was out of pity for a woman who betrayed EVERYTHING to Zarkon for reasons that Allura doesn't know and doesn't care to? Well, it's easy to see how nonexistent THAT is, the air around them taking on a sharper chill and some frost even forming on Allura's side of the tablecloth.]

Hopefully so, Shiro. And she'd better PRAY I never get the opportunity to use that information against her.