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[ceruleo]

Hey, look who showed up! What's shakin', Shiro?

[shiroics]

It’s good to hear your voice, Lance. Keith said you’ve been here about four months?

[ceruleo]

Sounds about right! We got sent to this place called Hanabira, where the idea was to figure out which of these two Empresses was legit so their countries wouldn't go to war. Turns out, after we convinced them to get hitched, it was both! [ He sounds pretty pleased with those results, as though the idea of 'love conquering war' appeals to his inner romantic. He had nothing to do with the politicking, of course. ]

[shiroics]

[Suppressing a laugh as he says it:] Sounds like congratulations are in order for the Empresses of Hanabira. But I'm more interested in hearing how you've been doing.

[Although it is nice to know that giant lion robots are optional for the kinds of missions they run here.]

[ceruleo]

[ The honest answer is--things are weird. Lance has had to reckon with the effects of choices made by an 'alternate' version of himself who'd been here previously, friends he doesn't remember having, and with Keith...it's been complicated. And that's on top of how far out of his wheelhouse he feels here with Hathaway: just a few days ago, he nearly vomited after stitching up another agent's wounds on Azeria. It's been a ride.

Of course, he's not about to tell Shiro that. He's got a reputation to maintain!! ]

Eh, you know me, cool as a cucumber! Keeping our favourite hothead outta trouble, takin' care care of business, makin' the ladies swoon. [ Shiro can't see it, but he totally winked at his magitek. Some things always stay the same. (There has been absolutely zero swooning.) ] What did they bribe you with to get you to sign on, huh?

[shiroics]

[Shiro can't see it, but he knows Lance well enough to imagine it.

Although he wasn't expecting that question.]

I asked for more intel on the Galra Empire.

[That was a broad, leaderly statement, and not at all suspiciously vague, right?]

what a good face??? dang

[ceruleo]

[ He almost asks if Shiro's talked to Allura yet, but thinks better of it. He doesn't know what Keith said, either. So instead: ]

Uh, hey, d'you mind if I ask what the last thing you remember is...? Like, when did you get recruited?

Shiro pouts are my favorite thing

[shiroics]

[It's a good thing he only has to go through this spiel three times.]

We were fighting Zarkon in his giant robot suit. [Said the pilot of a giant robot lion, scornfully.] I'd just gotten my bayard back when the Hathaway agent showed up, right in the Black Lion's cockpit.

[Which would have been an even more intimidating display of Hathaway's abilities than it already was if said agent hadn't been a dog.]

Did your recruiter look like a dog, too?

[ceruleo]

[ Record scratch. ]

You let yourself get recruited by a dog?

[shiroics]

[Hey now--]

I chose to sign on after speaking to a Hathaway recruiter who happens to look like a dog. We've met aliens who just happen to look like Earth species before, Lance, you know better than that.

[A teasing note in his voice:] Unless you're from so far in the future that you've forgotten the "hideous ears" incident.

[Is Shiro ruthlessly bringing that up to throw him off track? Yes. Yes he is.]

[ceruleo]

[ WOW. You're not getting off that easy!!! ]

Hey, I read Mr Wiggles' file too, he's definitely a good boy. I'm just saying, if I saw a talking Earth dog on some random planet? I'd get myself checked into the medbay, stat, and I definitely wouldn't follow him into another dimension.

[ A pause. ]

And my ears still work perfectly, thanks!

btw thank you belatedly for letting me inaugurate my "LANCE." icon

[shiroics]

--His name is Mr. Wiggles?

i'm honoured

[ceruleo]

[ Shiro's magitek dings with an attached link. FILE - MR WIGGLES, it says. ]

S'that your man?

[shiroics]

[...Oh no.]

Uh, that's the one. I figured he was just an alien -- you're saying he's an Earth dog? How'd that happen?

[Maybe he can just bluff his way through this.]

[ceruleo]

Well technically not since he's from a different dimension that apparently doesn't have an Earth-analogue, but. He's "biologically indistinguishable".

It's okay to be a dog person, Shiro. I won't tell anybody.

[shiroics]

[Shiro’s clearly not wriggling out of this one, so he sighs and offers:]

Just don’t tell the Lions. I’m not sure how Black would take it.

[ceruleo]

[ Lance's smile turns from mischievous to gentle. ]

Your secret's safe with me, bud. I'm just really glad you're here.

[ Please take your Voice of Reason job back, dude??? ]