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Who: Keith, Open
Broadcast: Yes
Action: Huntress, Blameless, or Iskaulit
When: starting August 17 and through the rest of the month

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[The feed was a little shaky as Keith got settled. His voice was a little quiet for a moment.]

...how these happened so close together...

[He was definitely muttering to himself. The picture spun until it was facing him. He looked different. Tired, a little bruised up, older... he'd visibly aged further than Lance, Pidge, or Shiro. His hair was longer and even more grown out than before, and, when he turned to face the camera for real, there was a large burn scar along the right side of his face.]

Hey... just letting everyone know I'm back, I guess. It's weird how close this happened this time. But, yeah. In case you guys were wondering...

Oh, and, uh... thanks to whoever looked after Snow while I was gone. I appreciate it.

[And with that, he clicked off.]

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[Keith could be found around the Huntress, the Iskaulit, or the Blameless. There might be a stop or two to the Bishop and the Tourist as well to check up on Pidge and Allura respectively. In person, he was a bit taller, and his shoulders were wider. Guess who's jacket didn't fit him anymore. His shirts were all a bit tight across the top now, too. He was going to need some new clothes when they get to the next system.]

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{OOC: Keith is back! Unlike his buddies, returning home dumped him into a quantum abyss that caused him to age two years faster than anyone else on the team. Once he got back from that trip to the team, he fought Shiro, and the two of them are pretty beat up because of it (hence Keith's new facial scar).}

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[Quintessence and the Force were probably very similar, but quintessence also had a physical form if gathered correctly. Though, neither one of them would really be able to tell that at the moment.]

Yeah. The Lions are kind of mystery to all of us. It's like, the more we work with them, the more abilities we discover. I'm not sure if it's us or the Lions or the bond that develops. But, it's kind of a psychic bond, I guess. We can sort of hear them in our heads... not words, not actual talking, but just kind of feelings and ideas. It's hard to explain.

[He nodded a little.]

If you bond strongly enough, then yeah. I guess anything's possible with the Lions. I know Shiro had to break the Black Lion's bond with its previous Paladin. Zarkon turned, and his second-in-command for Voltron took the Lions and hid them so Zarkon couldn't use them and Voltron to harm people. When we bonded with them, Zarkon's bond still remained. It hadn't been completely broken. But, when I took on the Black Lion, it was different. The Lion had already let me pilot it once before, and when I found Shiro's spirit inside the Lion, he helped me instead of fighting me like Zarkon had against Shiro. He essentially passed the bond to me.

Even in our world, Voltron and the Lions are unique. There's nothing else like them. [Well, not entirely true. The Sincline ships and the mech that they created was similar to Voltron. But Keith wasn't sure just how similar they were.]

We were gone a lot longer than it seems. It's happened before. We're only gone from here maybe a week, but a lot more time passes back home. For the others, it was probably several months. For me, over two years because of the gravity induced time slippage in the quantum abyss.

I wonder if the lions bonded toward your needs more so then you learning how they operated. This whole thing about the quantum abyss is a bit confusing as well. I don't think we've had something of a time lapse in our world.

[Hux carefully said based on what Keith had explained. Each person was different and if they had another Paladin in the past it probably operated different for them. This also made the technology even more advanced that in a sense it was like an AI system.]

With the knowledge that you were able to go home....has anyone been drastically hurt or had died when they went home and were still able to return here?

I think it's a little of both, to be honest. I mean, we definitely had to learn how to do things with them, but they helped us learn. And I know they adapt to us. Like, Hunk gets really bad motion sickness, but his Lion seems to compensate for that. He doesn't get sick as much in that one than he does when he was first learning back at the Garrison.

[Keith considered the question for a moment before answering.]

Yeah. Ulaz, Shiro... I think from some other worlds, too.

[Hux gave a nod in understanding the explanation. That much he could comprehend. He had heard of AIs being able to do both. Yet, he was surprised by the news that Keith had about how deaths were handled.]

I admit that it doesn't make sense with how they can be alive here and not alive back in their world. Shouldn't there be some kind of consequence?

I think it has to do with time. People can come here from the same worlds but different times. So, they can be brought here from a time right before their death, but others can be after.

Except, well... Shiro's a unique case. He... [Keith took a breath. It was still hard to think about.] He died, but with everything that happened to him back home, we were still able to save him. So, he's kind of... alive... back home, still.

Alright, I can understand the timing of things and how that can work in their favor. I agree that your friend's case is unique. He was lucky to have your group and the bond he had with that lion.

Eventually I will have to meet the rest of your group. They seem to be an intriguing set.

Yeah... Well, you've already met Pidge. I hope that works out better eventually. But, for everyone else, it probably won't be so bad. Shiro's friendly, and so is Lance. Allura's more formal, but she's a princess, so that's to be expected. Ulaz tends to be on the quiet side, like me.

[Keith decided to leave out Haggar and Lotor. It would likely come out at some point that they were from the same place, but he didn't really consider them 'part of his group'. And Hunk... who had been there, but wasn't anymore. He was part of the group, but it seemed a little pointless to bring him up if he wasn't there. Just like he wasn't going to bring up Coran, or any of the others they'd been working with, people who had never been there.]

I've met Ulaz. He's been training me as well in some combat skills. Things will eventually even out with Pidge, but at least for now there's a truce of sorts. The rest of your group seems nice.

[There's a pause as Hux debated even bringing up the bit of information he had. In the end he decided it was safe to discuss/question it.]

Have you ever dealt with people from the same world but different time lines? There are two people here from my world, but they appear to be from an earlier time and not the same time I'm from.

[Keith nodded a bit. Well, he was glad for that, at least.

The question caught him a little off-guard, but he nodded.]

Yeah. It's happened with a few people from home already. For a while, Pidge was from later in time than the rest of us.

Right now, though, Allura and Ulaz are from different points in time, and later than me, Lance, Pidge and Shiro. [He still wasn't really sure about bringing up Lotor and Haggar, so he wouldn't.]

....How were you able to deal with that? It must be frustrating with the people you are close with to be from different points of time. Especially for the ones that have passed away.

It's just... I don't know. Pidge refused to tell us anything. And Allura... well, we had to tell her some of it. For Ulaz, it didn't really matter if he knew the future. He's... He sacrificed himself back home to save the rest of us.

[Keith frowned a bit.]

He knew about it, though. He knew that he wasn't going to make it.

I guess it's more just knowing yourself and the other person. What do you think they should know? And, beyond that, it's not even a matter of going back and changing the past from here. They can't. Once we go back, we can't remember being here.

[He gave a nod in understanding.]

I appreciate the information you were able to give me. I do apologize for having to constantly ask you such strange and somewhat personal questions.

It's fine. [Keith shook his head a little.] I mean, this is stuff we have to think about, you know? This place is weird. Weird questions are going to come up.

I know you were explaining a lot of what happened to you. I didn't mean to take that from you.

Let me go help you find some more fitting clothes for you.

[Hux stated. He had noted that the clothes were an ill fit for Keith now it bothered him to see Keith dressed this way. It was the least he could do for now. He wasn't going to force Keith to wear anything he didn't want to, but just made sure it fitted.]

[Keith looked a little surprised by the offer.]

Oh... thanks.

[He smiled a bit. He appreciated the thought.]

Lunafreya gave me some of Noctis' stuff for now, and it fits a little better, but it's not really my style. I was thinking of getting some stuff of my own soon, and then getting the other stuff back to her so she'd have it if he came back again.d

Well then, why don't we use this time now to get that done.

[Hux stated and began to usher him toward a place that would sell clothing.]

[Keith was a little surprised, but not nodded.]

Okay.

[He'd been focusing more of his spending on helping get supplies for Shiro's arm, but having proper clothes wouldn't hurt, either.]

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