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[Beyond the door was the inside of a rundown shack. There was a large bulletin board on the wall to Veronica's right covered in diagrams, pictures, notes... all connected with colored strings. A few pictures stood out.

One was young Keith with young Shiro. They were both in Garrison uniforms, Shiro as of yet untouched by the Galra Empire. Behind them was a hoverspeeder, and they both looked a little dusty.

The other was Team Voltron, all seven of the Castle crew. The team looked a lot like they had when Lance first went missing, and Allura was not yet a Paladin.

The third was a very young Keith with another man. Keith resembled him a bit, indicating a familial relationship.]

Oh...

[Everything clicks as she steps forward to look at the bulletin board, and she tilts her head slightly, stepping closer to it. Everything connected with strings makes her smile faintly. It looks like a conspiracy board.]

Keith's home.

[Aw, young Keith and Shiro. Veronica smiles, fingers brushing against the picture.]

[The touch brought Veronica to a vast desert that she might recognize as the area around the Garrison, not far from the Grand Canyon. There were two hoverspeeders in the distance, racing each other as they skimmed over the ground and left clouds of dust in their wake. Shiro was in the lead with Keith following. Shiro was clearly challenging Keith to keep up, navigating through difficult canyons and ravines as if he was testing Keith's skill and discipline. Keith kept up easily as they jumped a ravine, landing effortlessly and perhaps even a little smoother than Shiro on a narrow rocky ledge on the opposite side. They both banked hard to the left as they landed, avoiding slamming full-on into the rock wall.

The race continued, leaving Veronica with a sense of exhilaration from both pilots, the adrenaline junkies they were...

The scenery flattened out again, opening wide just before the two approached a cliff. Shiro pushed the accelerator, leaping off the cliff and tipping down into a nosedive. Keith slid to a stop just short of going over, watching in shock as Shiro cranked the handle, shifted hard, and forced the nose of the speeder to pull up. He barely skimmed the ground as he took off.

Keith lifted the goggles from his face, staring in awe at the trail of dust Shiro left behind.

The memory shifted to later when Keith finally caught up to where Shiro had stopped. It was a quiet moment between them.]

How did you do that?

[Shiro explained that it was a matter of timing and feeling it out. Keith asked if he thought he was ready, and Shiro posed the question back to him. Keith smiled.]

I think I'll wait a bit and practice what I already know.

[It was one of the few times Keith backed down and didn't try to take more than he could handle. Shiro was Keith's stability and a calming influence on him... which he needed, being angry at the world like he was after being left as an orphan with a missing mother and a dead father.

Which was also where the conversation slowly turned, Shiro asking Keith about him growing up out in the desert, and Keith admitting that it had just been the two of them alone until his father died on the job trying to save people from a fire.]

They told him not to go back in, but he just wouldn't listen to anyone.

[Shiro seemed to hesitate for a just tiny moment out of reverence for the subject, but then he managed a small smirk as he attempted to lighten things up.]

Sounds like someone else I know.

[That got Keith's attention, and he blinked. Was he actually more like his dad than he realized? Was that a good thing or a bad thing? Keith wasn't sure how he felt about that, but his thoughts were cut off when Shiro suddenly flinched and gripped his right wrist. He pressed a button on a bracelet-like device he was wearing before quickly pulling down his sleeve.]

What is that?

[Shiro dismissed the question, reassuring Keith it was nothing and everything was fine before climbing back up on his own speeder. He said they should head back as it was getting dark.

Keith frowned a little and the memory faded, leaving Veronica in the shack.]

Edited 2019-02-25 01:54 (UTC)

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