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[yablueit]

[ As the TAB's video feed switches on, the only thing in view is one blue eye, as someone gets a closer look at the device before he realizes it's actually already recording. ]

—Whoa, okay, is this thing on now? I think it's on. [ Lance pulls back from the camera and steps back, clearly leaving it balanced on something as he stands back far enough to be beside Keith, both of them clearly in view.]

I'm Lance. Pilot of the blue lion, Paladin of Voltron, master sharpshooter, [ He pauses for a moment to make double fingerguns at the camera. ] and kind of a big deal. [ He elbows Keith, who tenses and glares back at him. Keith obviously isn’t thrilled about being on camera or about being elbowed on camera, but he elbows Lance right back, as subtly as he can (not very). ]

And I’m Keith. Also a Paladin of Voltron. If that means anything to any of you, contact us.

[ Lance elbows him back again, and it's really unsightly how these two are both all sharp angles. It's a wonder no one's getting stabbed. ] Dude, come on, you gotta give a better introduction than that! That's super lame.

Finger guns are super lame! [ ELBOW. ] It was concise.

[ ELBOW. ] Your face is concise!

That doesn’t even make sense! And stop elbowing me! [ ELBOWS. TWICE. Lance tries to get out of the way of Keith's flurry of furious elbows, but only succeeds in knocking down whatever it was his TAB was balanced on, the video remaining on as it tumbles down and settles on a view of their feet. After a moment of not moving, Lance leans down to peer into the camera again.]

—Okay, so uh, we're gonna go, but first, um… no one's happened to see any giant robot cats around, have you?

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[yablueit]

Princess!

[ He's so confused, but delighted as ever to see Allura. Delighted enough, in fact, to completely miss that she's being weird to Keith. ]

I mean, I only just saw you before I woke up here, but any time apart is too long, right?

[patchricide]

I never thought the space-time continuum could make things so confusing...

No, Lance. It has been far longer than that, at least on this side of the Ingress.

[yablueit]

...Huh?

[patchricide]

For months, it was just the three of us. Shiro, Pidge and myself.

But from what Hunk has told us, we were the only ones alone for that time.

[yablueit]

So... You guys were in two places at one time?

[patchricide]

I can't explain how it's possible, but... apparently so, yes.

Which means that right now, Coran could be on the ship with all of us, while we're here.

[yablueit]

Oh man, Coran isn't here?

[ That just doesn't feel right, everyone else being here without Coran. ]

[patchricide]

Not yet. The only Alteans here are myself and the mice.

On the upside, you'll find there's far more humans around here than there were on the Castle-Ship.

[yablueit]

Huh, really? Is it all people who've been brought here, or were there already humans here? And what about other races?

[patchricide]

The majority of them came along with us, on a ship called the Moira. I'm not certain how or why, but despite pulling its crew from different worlds and -- supposedly -- different universes, humans were the most common on board.

Robots were another major part of the crew. And AI, as well.

[yablueit]

Weird. You'd think if people were coming from different worlds, there'd be more variation, right?

[patchricide]

Exactly my thoughts.

However, the Ingress on the Moira was malfunctioning, unlike the one you came through. There were a lot of questions that never seemed to be answered about it.

[And since it was noted in Keith's thread, but not here: Her crown is gone. Swallowed by the Ingress. This bothers her a lot.]

[yablueit]

There's been more than one of these Ingress things? What happened to the one on the Moira?

[ And other questions he probably could've had answered upon arrival, had he not been preoccupied with keeping Keith from stabbing someone. ]

[patchricide]

One of the engineers from the ship would do better explaining it than I could. [But she will try, regardless!]

All of them, including Pidge and Darin and many others, worked together to try and repair the Ingress. They weren't successful in that, but they did manage to use it to bring the ship to a place called the Midway Hub. That eventually brought us here -- but not before we crashed and had to hike the remaining distance on foot.

[yablueit]

How long ago was all that?

[patchricide]

It's been...

[Give her a moment. She looks up in thought, counts on her fingers a bit... then eventually decides working backwards is the easiest way to go.]

We first came to Thisavrou from the Midway Hub about... not quite 30 days ago. Getting through the Hub must have taken much longer than that, about 60 days in all? Part of that was hiking, part of that was exploring the caverns, part of that was exploring the Inner Gate... at any rate, before the crash, we were employed with the Moira for a little more than 40 days.

So, it's been... [... a little over four months.] ... far too long.

askfl I LOST THIS NOTIF D:

[yablueit]

[ Lance frowns for a moment. It's so weird, even if they haven't been Team Voltron for very long, in the greater scheme of things, he still can't imagine the team being split up like that for anywhere near that long. ]

...It's good we're almost all back together now, at least.